neurosexism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

neuro- +‎ sexism

Noun[edit]

neurosexism (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The use of neuroscientific research to support preexisting ideas about inherent sex differences.
    • 2010, Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference‎[1], W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page xxviii:
      Neurosexism reflects and reinforces cultural beliefs about gender—and it may do so in a particularly powerful way. Dubious “brain facts” about the sexes become part of the cultural lore.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:neurosexism.
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