Abstract
We here review two recent popular press books which challenge the notion that there are biological sex differences in the brain, Rebecca J. Jordan-Young's Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (2010 Harvard University Press) and Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create a Difference (2010 W.W. Norton Company, New York). While there is much of merit in each, both resort to hyperbole and superficiality, with numerous inaccurate representations of the current state of the art.
Highlights
The topic of sex differences in brain and behavior continues to garner broad interest and generate considerable controversy
Jordan-Young wrote Brain Storm after she became interested in the causes of variation in human sexual behavior while engaging in a study of human sexuality related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome epidemic
During the course of this work, she was struck by the substantial variation that is exhibited by humans in relation to sexual behavior and the difficulty one can encounter in fitting individuals neatly into categories such as man versus woman or homosexual versus heterosexual
Summary
The topic of sex differences in brain and behavior continues to garner broad interest and generate considerable controversy. Jordan-Young reviews, in a thorough and engaging manner, the challenges and pitfalls of trying to study brain sexual differentiation in humans.
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