Here you can find selected examples of Cordelia's academic work on the science of sex differences in brain and behaviour.
Cordelia Fine has spoken on this topic at a diverse range of organizations and events, including The Bernal Lecture @ Birkbeck College London, International Academy of Sex Research (keynote), Society for Neuroscience (keynote), The Edinburgh Medal Address, British Neuroscience Society Conference, Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences @ Stanford University, Maurice Blackburn Annual Leaders Meeting, International Particle Physics Accelerator Conference, the Royal Society of Victoria, the 2023 Fay Gale Lecture (Academy of Social Sciences in Australia), and Sex/Gender Differences: The Big Conversation (Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation).
Popular contributions include Can we finally stop talking about 'male' and 'female' brains? (with neuroscientist Professor Daphna Joel) in the New York Times, Promiscuous men, chaste women and other gender myths in Scientific American (with ecologist Professor Mark Elgar and An unproductive story of reproductive success and PMS and How we inherit masculine and feminine behaviours: a new idea about environment and genes (Daphna Joel and philosopher of biology Professor John Dupre) in The Conversation.
Cordelia Fine has spoken on this topic at a diverse range of organizations and events, including The Bernal Lecture @ Birkbeck College London, International Academy of Sex Research (keynote), Society for Neuroscience (keynote), The Edinburgh Medal Address, British Neuroscience Society Conference, Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences @ Stanford University, Maurice Blackburn Annual Leaders Meeting, International Particle Physics Accelerator Conference, the Royal Society of Victoria, the 2023 Fay Gale Lecture (Academy of Social Sciences in Australia), and Sex/Gender Differences: The Big Conversation (Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation).
Popular contributions include Can we finally stop talking about 'male' and 'female' brains? (with neuroscientist Professor Daphna Joel) in the New York Times, Promiscuous men, chaste women and other gender myths in Scientific American (with ecologist Professor Mark Elgar and An unproductive story of reproductive success and PMS and How we inherit masculine and feminine behaviours: a new idea about environment and genes (Daphna Joel and philosopher of biology Professor John Dupre) in The Conversation.
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"Neuroimaging technologies are having increasing impact in the study of complex cognitive and social processes. In this emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience, a central goal should be to increase the understanding of the interaction between the neurobiology of the individual and the environment in which humans develop and function."
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“Understanding the sex-biased prevalence of disorders of brain and mind is an important line of inquiry. However, sex category is not a causal mechanism, and sex-related variables, including hormones, neurobiological variables, gendered experiences, traits, abilities or preferences, are rarely binary."
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"Feminism may be on the brink of being acceptable, but it's still regarded with suspicion in science. Common thinking is that while feminism is all very well for Gender Studies, it should be kept away from science, lest political preferences of how women, men, and the world should be lead to distortion of scientific evidence as to how they actually are."
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