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 Nyxa rated 7 months ago - Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? An interesting article with a critical view on the popular new genre of neurosexism and it's implications on how most people view gender differences.
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Let's not forget the sheer embarrassment factor. The successful nineteenth cen...
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- Nyxa rated 7 months ago
- Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? An interesting article with a critical view on the popular new genre of neurosexism and it's implications on how most people view gender differences.
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Let's not forget the sheer embarrassment factor. The successful nineteenth century book, Sex in Education (subtitled Or, A Fair Chance for Girls - somewhat ironically as it turned out) argued that education was selectively perilous to girls and young women. Its author, Harvard Medical School professor Edward Clarke [6], proposed that intellectual labour sent energy rushing dangerously from ovaries to brain, threatening infertility as well as other severe medical ills. From our modern vantage point we can laugh at the crudely obvious prejudice that gave rise to this hypothesis (as biologist Richard Lewontin [17], p. 208 dryly remarked of this hypothesis, `Testicles, apparently, had their own sources of energy').
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