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She’s only ever been ‘Nao-chan,’ a person Mitsumi loves and cherishes. Up until now, the show hasn’t even brushed the subject of Mitsumi’s relative.

It’s a quick, almost unimportant scene, but it feels momentous. Nao-chan starts shifting uncomfortably under the unwanted attention, but Mitsumi gently takes her hand and changes the subject, her eyes nothing but kind and trusting. Gazes start lingering, voices whisper - people glance at Mitsumi’s auntie and gasp at her feminine appearance when it seems obvious to them that under those clothes is a man. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different-a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.Mitsumi and Nao-chan are riding the train and chatting affectionately when it happens. Instead of a male brain and a female brain, Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men's and women's behavior. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men's and women's brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men's brains aren't wired for empathy and women's brains aren't made to fix cars. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math men too focused for housework. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. And everywhere we hear about vitally important hardwired differences between male and female brains. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children-boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks-we failed.