Awards

• Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2018
• Short-listed for The Orwell Prize 2018
• Winner of Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017
• Winner of Royal Society Science Book Prize 2017

Overview

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.

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Filled with interesting facts, studies and arguments, [Testosterone Rex is] an impressive work. -- Patricia Lowther - Counterfire Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics. -- Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Developments, University College, London Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society does the public service of deconstructing the biological and societal tenets on which the continued inequality of the sexes is largely founded.... Using humor and her uniquely accessible academic writing style,... [Fine disrupts] what we think we know about gender difference. -- Katie Klabusich - Rewire Exciting, eloquent, and effective. Deftly weaving together research from anthropology, biology, neuroscience, and psychology, Fine shows exactly why and how the myth of testosterone and maleness plays out and why it is false. -- Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology, University of Notre Dame A provocative and often fascinating book. -- The Economist Fine has done us a service by reminding us of the dangers of misapplications of research to policy. -- Sheri Berenbaum - Science Convincingly and entertainingly demonstrates that, despite stereotypes, such characteristics as risk-taking, competitiveness and nurturing are not essential to one sex over the other and cannot be blamed for the lack of equality between males and females in contemporary society. -- Clara Moskowitz - Scientific American Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar. -- The Guardian Fascinating [and] bold.... Fine has written a book that's not only well-researched and convincing but also... delightfully humorous. -- Barbara J. King - NPR The expression `essential reading for everyone' is usually untrue as well as a cliche, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it. -- Antonia Macaro - Financial Times [A] witty corrective. -- Barbara Kiser - Nature, Best Science Picks

A provocative and often fascinating book. -- The Economist Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society does the public service of deconstructing the biological and societal tenets on which the continued inequality of the sexes is largely founded. . . . Using humor and her uniquely accessible academic writing style, . . . [Fine disrupts] what we think we know about gender difference. -- Katie Klabusich - Rewire [Fine] convincingly and entertainingly demonstrates that, despite stereotypes, such characteristics as risk-taking, competitiveness and nurturing are not essential to one sex over the other and cannot be blamed for the lack of equality between males and females in contemporary society. -- Clara Moskowitz - Scientific American In addition to being hopeful, Fine is also angry. We should all be angry. Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar. -- The Guardian The expression `essential reading for everyone' is usually untrue as well as a cliche, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it. -- Antonia Macaro - Financial Times In this witty corrective, psychologist Cordelia Fine examines the fraying biological big picture of sexual selection, and corrals findings in evolutionary science, neuroscience and endocrinology to add nuance to it. -- Barbara Kiser - Nature, Best Science Picks Fascinating [and] bold. . . . Fine has written a book that's not only well-researched and convincing but also . . . delightfully humorous. -- Barbara J. King - NPR 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

Exciting, eloquent, and effective. Deftly weaving together research from anthropology, biology, neuroscience, and psychology, Fine shows exactly why and how the myth of testosterone and maleness plays out and why it is false. -- Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology, University of Notre Dame A provocative and often fascinating book. -- The Economist Fine has done us a service by reminding us of the dangers of misapplications of research to policy. -- Sheri Berenbaum - Science Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society does the public service of deconstructing the biological and societal tenets on which the continued inequality of the sexes is largely founded.... Using humor and her uniquely accessible academic writing style,... [Fine disrupts] what we think we know about gender difference. -- Katie Klabusich - Rewire Convincingly and entertainingly demonstrates that, despite stereotypes, such characteristics as risk-taking, competitiveness and nurturing are not 'essential' to one sex over the other and cannot be blamed for the lack of equality between males and females in contemporary society. -- Clara Moskowitz - Scientific American Graced with precisely focused humour, the author makes a good case that men and women are far more alike than many would claim. Feminist? Possibly. Humanist? Certainly. A compellingly good read. -- Professor Richard Fortey, author of Earth: An Intimate History Totally convincing, even life-changing.... The expression 'essential reading for everyone' is usually untrue as well as a cliche, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it. -- Antonia Macaro - Financial Times Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar. -- Guardian [A] witty corrective. -- Barbara Kiser - Nature, Best Science Picks An important, yet wickedly witty, book.... Pressingly contemporary, it's the ideal companion read to sit alongside The Handmaid's Tale and The Power. -- judges, 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

Author Information

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.

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