Welcome to Litsy!

Im putting this one in my feminism square for #jennyis30 tho I‘ll probably read a huge pile of books this year that could count! I‘m barrelling through the easier squares but think I need to start including some harder ones hmm. I‘m not a big thriller or suspense reader so I don‘t want to leave them to last. @jenniferw88

4/15 #jumpstart2020 @Clwojick @StayCurious

Enjoyable, interesting and fair minded exploration of the factors that lead to men and women‘s brains being perceived as different and the prejudices and odd experimental methodology that leads to it. I appreciated the nuanced conclusions which were more than ‘men and women are definitely no different‘, but took a lot of factors into account.

#popsugar2020 #womeninstem

Sex differences are a fascinating topic, but Rippon's book tended toward the soporific for me, somehow. Similar content and criticisms of the field as in Fine's Delusions of Gender -- the takeaway is that there are neurological and psychological differences between the sexes, but they're mostly or wholly caused by brain plasticity and adaptation to societal context. No surprises here for me!

I've managed to snatch about an hour of reading this! #SummersEndReadathon @Clwojick

I started it at the beginning of August, but I restarted it now because none of the info had actually stuck in my head... I think Cordelia Fine's book was very similar in content but slightly more readable.

Here's Hulk flopping luxuriously over and over now we've finally finished a weekend of tidying the flat and she can run around! #BunniesofLitsy