Cordelia Fine

DELUSIONS of GENDER
How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Cordelia Fine, PhD
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

New York • London

Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now the unspeakable ignorance and inattention of mankind in respect to the influences which form human character. Whatever any portion of the human species now are, or seem to be, such, it is supposed, they have a natural tendency to be: even when the most elementary knowledge of the circumstances in which they have been placed, clearly points out the causes that made them what they are.

—John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869)

Does he secretly find Jane deeply unattractive? Is he in the slow process of recovery from some deeply traumatic incident?