Testosterone rex : unmaking the myths of our gendered minds / Cordelia Fine.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PAST -- 1.Flies Of Fancy -- 2.One Hundred Babies? -- 3.A New Position On Sex -- pt. TWO PRESENT -- 4.Why Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man? -- 5.Skydiving Wallflowers -- 6.The Hormonal Essence Of The T-Rex? -- 7.The Myth Of The Lehman Sisters -- pt. THREE FUTURE -- 8.Vale Rex.

Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains.Testosterone, so we're told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development. Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn't create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future - not a recipe.Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old 'nature versus nurture' debates, and to explain why it's time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex.