Mapreaders & Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature, Nurture

In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that male and female minds are not inherently different, and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology.A great many of the supposedly innate gender differences between men and women have been invented or exaggerated by evolutionary psychologists and self-help authors. Evans offers fresh insight on gender roles, proposing unconventionally wide and flexible definitions of what it is to be masculine and feminine, from a firm biological base.This book challenges popular and widespread ideas, including the belief that 'male brains' are fundamentally different from 'female brains'; that men have evolved to be inherently more promiscuous than women; that women have evolved to spend more time in front of the mirror; that there are more male geniuses and idiots, that maternal instinct is 'hard-wired', and that men are better at mapreading and women at multitasking.Praise for Mapreaders and Multitaskers:'The author makes a convincing and exhaustively researched case against crude, biology based definitions of the male and female in society ... One of the best books I've read ... so far' - Amazon review'Despite its scholarly underpinnings, the book is an easy, entertaining and often amusing read. It is essential for anyone who has ever questioned the assumptions underlying biologically determined gender identities - and should be compulsory for any who have swallowed the evolutionary psychologists' claims on these' - Goodreads reviewGavin Evans was born in London and raised in South Africa, where be became involved in the anti-apartheid movement while working as a journalist. Now resident in the UK, he works as a lecturer and has written several books.