-
Testosterone Rex
- Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $24.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Delusions of Gender
- How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Maria Brendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's the 21st century, and although we tried to rear unisex children - boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks - we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important "hardwired" differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is a validation of the status quo.
-
-
Gender differences are exaggerated
- By Neuron on 03-24-16
By: Cordelia Fine
-
Testosterone
- An Unauthorized Biography
- By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
T's story didn't spring from nature: it is a tale that began long before the hormone was even isolated, when 19th-century scientists went looking for the chemical essence of masculinity. And so this molecule's outmoded, authorized life story persisted, providing a handy rationale for countless behaviors-from the boorish and the belligerent to the exemplary and enviable. Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis focus on what T does in six domains: reproduction, aggression, risk-taking, power, sports, and parenting. Testosterone allows us to see the real T for the first time.
-
-
Went from one good chapter to a woke lecture
- By Dave on 03-16-20
By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, and others
-
A Mind of Its Own
- How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Judith West
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brain's tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions.
-
-
This is a must read for anyone with a brain :)
- By IB on 10-22-13
By: Cordelia Fine
-
Polysecure
- Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
- By: Jessica Fern
- Narrated by: Jessica Fern, Eve Rickert, Nora Samaran
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships.
-
-
Seemed Poly and Mono Relationships Very Similar
- By Todd on 12-02-20
By: Jessica Fern
-
Gender and Our Brains
- How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions, and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselves.
-
-
Specious and Shallow
- By Daniel S. on 08-13-20
By: Gina Rippon
-
Gender Mosaic
- Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
- By: Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or larger than in men, or because they have more or less of this or that hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true? According to neuroscientist Daphna Joel, it's not.
By: Daphna Joel, and others
-
Delusions of Gender
- How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Maria Brendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's the 21st century, and although we tried to rear unisex children - boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks - we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important "hardwired" differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is a validation of the status quo.
-
-
Gender differences are exaggerated
- By Neuron on 03-24-16
By: Cordelia Fine
-
Testosterone
- An Unauthorized Biography
- By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
T's story didn't spring from nature: it is a tale that began long before the hormone was even isolated, when 19th-century scientists went looking for the chemical essence of masculinity. And so this molecule's outmoded, authorized life story persisted, providing a handy rationale for countless behaviors-from the boorish and the belligerent to the exemplary and enviable. Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis focus on what T does in six domains: reproduction, aggression, risk-taking, power, sports, and parenting. Testosterone allows us to see the real T for the first time.
-
-
Went from one good chapter to a woke lecture
- By Dave on 03-16-20
By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, and others
-
A Mind of Its Own
- How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Judith West
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brain's tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions.
-
-
This is a must read for anyone with a brain :)
- By IB on 10-22-13
By: Cordelia Fine
-
Polysecure
- Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
- By: Jessica Fern
- Narrated by: Jessica Fern, Eve Rickert, Nora Samaran
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships.
-
-
Seemed Poly and Mono Relationships Very Similar
- By Todd on 12-02-20
By: Jessica Fern
-
Gender and Our Brains
- How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions, and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselves.
-
-
Specious and Shallow
- By Daniel S. on 08-13-20
By: Gina Rippon
-
Gender Mosaic
- Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
- By: Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or larger than in men, or because they have more or less of this or that hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true? According to neuroscientist Daphna Joel, it's not.
By: Daphna Joel, and others
-
Beyond the Gender Binary
- Pocket Change Collective
- By: Alok Vaid-Menon
- Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.
-
-
A must-read for everyone on this planet
- By Anonymous User on 11-03-20
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
-
Rage Becomes Her
- The Power of Women's Anger
- By: Soraya Chemaly
- Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would. Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression.
-
-
Holy Raging Hell
- By Enid Quimby on 10-17-18
By: Soraya Chemaly
-
The Social Construction of Reality
- A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
- By: Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdiscipline that, since Max Scheler, has been known as the sociology of knowledge.
-
-
Overwhelming the first listen
- By Fabian on 04-24-18
By: Peter L. Berger, and others
-
The Beauty Myth
- How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
- By: Naomi Wolf
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife.
-
-
Sadly, this is all still relevant
- By Melanie Pfautz on 12-09-16
By: Naomi Wolf
-
Conflict Is Not Abuse
- Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
- By: Sarah Schulman
- Narrated by: Sarah Schulman
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between conflict and abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning.
-
-
Important Perspective
- By L Win on 01-18-19
By: Sarah Schulman
-
From Here to Eternity
- Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
- By: Caitlin Doughty
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage.
-
-
Incredible Read
- By Miss Cambria on 02-28-18
By: Caitlin Doughty
-
Gender Trouble
- Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
- By: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past 50 years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category "woman" and continues in this vein with examinations of "the masculine" and "the feminine." Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.
-
-
Been wanting for a long time to read Gender Trouble
- By GayIsGreat on 03-22-18
By: Judith Butler
-
Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- By: Caroline Criado Perez
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women.
-
-
Not great science but interesting
- By Regina Rutledge on 12-29-19
-
x + y
- A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
- By: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty - category theory - reveals why. Category theory deals more with context, relationships, and nuanced versions of equality than with intrinsic characteristics. Category theory also emphasizes dimensionality: much as a cube can cast a square or diamond shadow, depending on your perspective, so too do gender politics appear to change with how we examine them.
-
-
Modern day Flatland
- By Samm Flynn on 08-27-20
By: Eugenia Cheng
-
Transgender History, Second Edition
- The Roots of Today's Revolution
- By: Susan Stryker
- Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Covering American transgender history from the mid-20th century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.
-
-
something for everyone to learn
- By Nick G on 03-12-19
By: Susan Stryker
-
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
- Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
- By: Sady Doyle
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula's Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares: Serial killer Ed Gein's "domineering" mother Augusta; exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, starving herself to death to quell her demons; author Mary Shelley, dreaming her dead child back to life.
-
-
This book is exceptional!
- By Chays Love on 09-19-19
By: Sady Doyle
-
Mediocre
- The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
- By: Ijeoma Oluo
- Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of White male supremacy on women, people of color, and White men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new White male identity, one free from racism and sexism.
-
-
This was so enlightening.
- By Firewhiskey Reader on 01-07-21
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Publisher's Summary
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in our development. According to this familiar story, differences between the sexes are shaped by past evolutionary pressures - women are more cautious and parenting-focused, men seek status to attract more mates - re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. This, in turn, is the basis of supposedly entrenched inequalities in our modern societies.
But in this entertaining and rigorous exploration of the latest research, Cordelia Fine draws on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy to reveal a much more dynamic situation. Testosterone, for instance, is not the potent hormonal essence of masculinity, and received wisdoms about differences between the sexes, from toy preferences to financial risk taking, are turned on their heads. Moving beyond the old "nature" versus "nurture" debates, Testosterone Rex reinvigorates hope and determination for a more equal future.
More from the same
Narrator
What listeners say about Testosterone Rex
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tim
- 01-19-18
A cure for the delusion that gender is simple
Neuroendocrinology is complicated as all hell, yet we have a profound social tendency to speak in reductive absolutes about the differences between males and females (both within our own species, and generally across the animal kingdom). This book doesn't seek to deny those regularities that do exist (at least within specific species), but instead explores areas of biology and behavioural science that most laypeople never hear of, to inject some much needed nuance into discussions of sex differences, and make us more aware of the biases that help sustain oversimplified and reductionist views on the topic.
A must read (or listen) for anyone who professes to approach sex and gender from a scientific perspective.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Simone
- 02-01-17
Ground Breaking research wryly written
Articulate and funny and provocative research into gender science, fascinating and should affect Policy makers. Well read.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Carrie
- 11-17-18
Very interesting book and excellent narration
Great book filled with interesting details, insights and analysis. The writing is complicated in some ways, with a lot of citations and explanations of scientific data. Gould's narration was fantastic at keeping me totally immersed and interested. I look forward to reading more from Fine and seeking out more from this narrator.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Erickson
- 04-08-17
It was good
It was good and okay, and me being a raging feminist I agree to everything. Content is nice and sound, but I didn't think it was as impressive as her last book. I do not regret having listened to it, but I would recommend something else for a friend. #feminism #culturalcritic #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Hardin
- 04-03-17
time to reorganize
effectively makes the argument that gendered behavior is socially organized not biologically determined. worthwhile listen
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Josh Schlossberg
- 11-20-17
Not Science
This book makes a good case for not assuming everything is about biology, but does a disservice to science by encouraging us to pretend we're not animals.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
- Amazon Customer
- 04-17-17
Men and women are both from earth.
Terrific attack on dogmas of sex evolution. It should challenge some who fall into or build up edifices of over simplification. It may make enemies in all the right places. But study and think about the evidence in this book.