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Sex and the Brain is a pedagogical tour de force. Einstein has succeeded in organizing the diffuse literature on sex, gender, sexuality, and the brain into a comprehensive state-of-the-art tour of the field. This is remarkable enough, but Einstein also manages to weave together this literature in a way that has deep implications for the mind-body problem, for anthropological takes on sex and gender, as well as for advancing methodologies for linking phenomenological data to neurological processes. Einstein's brilliant introduction alone is worth the price of admission to this rock-crusher! --Owen Flangan, James B Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University, and author of The Really Hard Problem and The Science of the Mind This is an excellent collection of new and historically important articles that will be of value to students and their instructors! It can be difficult to track down many of these articles, so compiling them in one book does the field a valuable service. The breadth of the articles on sex differences in the brain is a clear distinction--included are some of the earliest articles published on sex differences in the brain as well as more recent studies considering the role of sex chromosomes in sexual differentiation and the role of brain sex differences in gender identity. --Jill B. Becker, Professor of Psychology and Senior Neuroscience Scholar, Reproductive Sciences Program, University of Michigan

"""Sex and the Brain is a pedagogical tour de force. Einstein has succeeded in organizing the diffuse literature on sex, gender, sexuality, and the brain into a comprehensive state-of-the-art tour of the field. This is remarkable enough, but Einstein also manages to weave together this literature in a way that has deep implications for the mind-body problem, for anthropolical takes on sex and gender, as well as for advancing methodologies for linking phenomenological data to neurological processes. Einstein's brilliant introduction alone is worth the price of admission to this rock-crusher!"" --Owen Flangan, James B Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University, and Author of The Really Hard Problem and The Science of the Mind ""How wonderful to have so many critical articles on sex and the brain collected and annotated in a single source. The book will be a great resource for teaching and for scholars who use this history in their own work. I am happy to have been a part of this project.""Anne Fausto-Sterling , Professor of Biology and Women""s Studies, Brown University, and author of Sexing the Body"

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Gillian Einstein is Professor of Psychology and Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health and Aging at the University of Toronto. She has held positions at Duke University and the National Institute of Health.

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