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Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls? Well, no, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne Cordelia Fine argues, it’s a lot more complicated than that. She spoke about her latest book Testosterone Rex (Icon Books), an examination of the vexed and fascinating interplay between nature and nurture in the construction of gender, with writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
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