Mapreaders and Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature, Nurture
Gavin Evans
In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that male and female minds do not emerge from different planets, and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology.
A great many of the supposedly innate gender differences between men and women have been invented or exaggerated by evolutionary psychologists and self-help authors. Evans offers fresh insight on gender roles through proposing unconventionally wide and flexible definitions of what it is to be masculine and feminine, from a firm biological base.
This book challenges ideas rooted in conventional wisdom, including the idea that ‘male brains’ are fundamentally different from ‘female brains’; that men have evolved to be inherently more promiscuous than women; that women have evolved to spend more time in front of the mirror; that there are more male geniuses and more idiots, that maternal instinct is ‘hard-wired’, and that men are better at mapreading and women at multitasking.
Book Details:
- Author: Gavin Evans
- Published Year: 2017
-
Rights Sold
- United Kingdom: Thistle
- Saudi Arabia: Sumo
Gavin Evans
Gavin Evans was born in London but grew up mainly in Cape Town. After a year studying in Texas, he returned to South Africa to become intensely involved in the anti-apartheid struggle in various capacities. Along the way he studied economic history and law before completing a PhD in political studies. He worked as a journalist for several South African newspapers and as a foreign correspondent for a Rome-based news agency.
He returned to London with his wife and first daughter in 1993, initially working as a freelance journalist (for The Guardian, Esquire, Men’s Healt...
More about Gavin Evans