Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference unravels decades of junk neuroscience "proving" that women are hardwired for having relationships and feeling empathy but not fixing cars, and men for doing math and using tools but not hugging. Brialliantly argued and long overdue. Read it with Lise Eliot's Pink Brain, Blue Brain.
New NIH-funded study gauges cognitive effects of female objectification in video games as measured by Likelihood to Sexually Harass (LSH) scale and finds that even a half-hour of viewing and interacting can encourage seeing women as objects and prime sexually inappropriate social behavior over the short-term (non pay-wall download).
Promundo's Project H teaches young men and boys a "gender transformative" approach to masculinity, relations with women, and safer sex abroad. Their extensive Toolkit contains all the pieces to incorporate this approach and is a definitive statement on gender norms' interaction with sexuality for young people (153pg).
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