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: “Semi-Changed World”, “Semi-Changed Minds”, Neurosexisam and Recycling Gender. The reason I chose this book is because it deals with gender and how in society and in our minds we create differences that are used against us. I thought by reading it I would understand more from a psychologist's perspective how our thought process creates what we perceive as reality, what has been attributed by society to gender specific things, and how it has affected society. In the book “Semi-Changed World”, “Semi-Changed Minds”, the author argues on how social and environmental factors influence the mind on gender differences. It also includes the history and impact of the gender stereotypes we see and how science has been used to justify the use of sexism. In the first chapter of the "World Changed Halfway" section of the book he uses an example in which a researcher taps you on the shoulder and asks you to write what males and females were like if you could write things like compassionate for females and aggressive for males or if I looked at the researcher and told him that every person is unique. (Good,3) Based on the information in the book most people would take a pencil and write descriptions of each genre based on how the world perceives the genre. 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..." (End,78) In the second...... middle of the paper ......ate a lot with other girls. I spent my time playing soccer and 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 learn about the differences between the sexes and to know their own gender, but I feel like it's forced on them at a young age, so it's possible that they aren't really 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. She stated that these differences meant that women lacked the intellect for politics and government. This later turned out to be false. I found this to be the most interesting part of the book, mainly because the arguments are largely based on scientific research studies.