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“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review

Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.

ISBN-13: 9780393355482

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Norton - W. W. & Company - Inc.

Publication Date: 02-20-2018

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Cordelia Fine, an associate professor at the University of Melbourne, is author of the much-acclaimed Delusions of Gender and A Mind of Its Own.

Table of Contents

Introducing Testosterone Rex 13

A Note about Terminology 25

Part 1 Past

Chapter 1 Flies of Fancy 29

Chapter 2 One Hundred Babies? 46

Chapter 3 A New Position on Sex 63

Part 2 Present

Chapter 4 Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man? 83

Chapter 5 Skydiving Wallflowers 108

Chapter 6 The Hormonal Essence of the T-Rex? 128

Chapter 7 The Myth of the Lehman Sisters 152

Part 3 Future

Chapter 8 Vale Rex 173

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 201

Index 251