This is a book written for academics. As such it has the advantages anddisadvantages one would expect. It coherently pulls informationtogether, but it cries out for a larger organising idea to fit theinformation into.
Research results are clearly interpreted and relevant. The innatepredispositions of a child and differences between boys and girls arealso set out.
There are some oddities however. For example, to say "discussions aboutthe differences between men and women is often difficult because we arereluctant to accept that those differences could have deep biologicalroots" is clearly setting a hare running that isn't there. No person intouch with reality ever believed that men and women were notpsychologically and biologically different.
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