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Language English Pages 336 Originally published 14 April 2005 Page count 336 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date April 14, 2005 ISBN 978-0195188363 Publisher Oxford University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brain Gender is a book by Melissa Hines, Hine’s graduated with an undergraduate degree from Princeton, following through with a doctorate in psychology from UCLA. Currently, Hines is a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge.
Brain Gender is a book exploring the biological differences between sex and gender. Hines questions whether or not different biological differences, such as hormones, affect the way people develop and act. Hines demonstrates the possibilities that genetic, biological, neuroendocrine, behavioral, social, and statistical aspects of born sex affect the differences between males or females in gender roles.
In the end of the book, it is concluded that the human tendency to perceive generalized gender differences is not supported by evidence. Biology does not imply a deterministic set of gender creation or identification.