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Brizendine's science is worthless. She misquotes and misinterprets studies.
Her unscientific "findings" are sexist, supporting status quo stereotypes about the sexes and gendered behavior.
To read a sound critique of her weak science, look at Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (Powell's has it in stock). It specifically pulls apart the errors and misquotes in Brizendine's book and pokes holes in the false ideas of male and female brains being biologically different (Shaped by cultural beliefs and expectations about gender, yes, but not biologically different. Our beliefs about gender difference creates gender difference; it isn't hardwired.).
"Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender."
Look at Brizendine's work. She founded a Teen Girl's Hormone and Mood and Hormone Clinic. She profits from a belief that women are hormonally moody and emotional, a conclusion her book makes. She espouses that view even if that is contradicted by methodologically sound science.
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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
Claire Weigand, November 9, 2011
Brizendine's science is worthless. She misquotes and misinterprets studies.Her unscientific "findings" are sexist, supporting status quo stereotypes about the sexes and gendered behavior.
To read a sound critique of her weak science, look at Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (Powell's has it in stock). It specifically pulls apart the errors and misquotes in Brizendine's book and pokes holes in the false ideas of male and female brains being biologically different (Shaped by cultural beliefs and expectations about gender, yes, but not biologically different. Our beliefs about gender difference creates gender difference; it isn't hardwired.).
"Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender."
Look at Brizendine's work. She founded a Teen Girl's Hormone and Mood and Hormone Clinic. She profits from a belief that women are hormonally moody and emotional, a conclusion her book makes. She espouses that view even if that is contradicted by methodologically sound science.
(5 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)