The book I chose to read was Delusions of Gender: How Our Mind, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine. The book consists of three parts: “A Half-Changed World”, “Half-Changed Minds”, Neurosexisam and Recycling Gender. The reason I chose this book is because it dealt with gender and how in society and in our minds we create the differences that are used against us. I thought that by reading it I would better understand, from a psychologist's perspective, how our thought process creates what we perceive as reality, what has been placed on gender specific things by society and how it affected society. In the book “A Half-Changed World”, “Half-Changed Minds”, the author explains how social and environmental factors influence the mind on gender differences. It also includes the history and impact of the gender stereotypes we observe and how science has been used to justify the use of sexism. In the first chapter of the book's "Half-Changed World" section, she uses an example: If a researcher tapped you on the shoulder and asked you to write down what men and women looked like, what if you wrote things such as compassion. for women and aggressive for men or if you looked at the researcher and said that every person is unique. (Good, 3) Based on the information in the book, most people would pick up the pencil and write descriptions of each gender based on gender. about how the world perceives gender. She also talks about marriage and how “the husband is the breadwinner and works outside the home to provide financial resources for the family. In return, his wife is responsible for both the emotional and domestic labor created by the family..." (Fine, 78) By the second...... middle of paper ...... ate a lot with other girls. I spent my time playing kickball, cops and robbers with the boys, or doing things that would be associated with being a boy. I like the idea that at a young age children have the ability to know gender differences and know their own gender, but I feel like this is forced on them as babies, so they may not really be able to understand it. . Another thing I learned was how a neurologist, Charles Dana, cataloged several differences in the brains and nervous systems of men and women, including the upper half of the spinal cord. He claimed that these differences caused women to lack intelligence for politics and governance. Later it turned out that this was all false. I found this to be the most interesting part of the book, mainly because the arguments are based largely on scientific studies carried out by researchers..