Books by Cordelia Fine
“Cordelia Fine is a really well established and respected neuroscience ethicist. Since this 2010 book there have been other books that have developed similar arguments, but I like to go back to this one because it is very clearly and accessibly argued and documented. She has had such a big impact, so this is kind of the original source to go to. What she’s showing here is that brain research over a hundred years or more has tried to establish that women are inferior, that their brains are inferior. But it has been unsuccessful in every instance.” Read more...
The best books on Gender Inequality
Linda Scott, Economist
Interviews where books by Cordelia Fine were recommended
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Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Perez -
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Sex and World Peace
by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli & Valerie Hudson -
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Delusions of Gender
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Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas
by Nancy Folbre
The best books on Gender Inequality, recommended by Linda Scott
The best books on Gender Inequality, recommended by Linda Scott
Women produce about 40% of global GDP and more than half of the world’s food. But their economic and social contribution has too often gone unrecorded—subsumed into ‘household earnings’ or otherwise disregarded. Here, the Oxford academic and author of The Double X Economy Linda Scott selects five of the best books on gender inequality, and reveals how the empowerment of women might just be the route to world peace.
The best books on Behavioral Science, recommended by Nicholas Epley
What can we draw from behavioral science to help us better understand each other? Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Science and Faculty Director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, recommends the five best books for learning about an interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology, sociology, economics and anthropology.
