Brain Gender

{{Short description|2005 book by Melissa Hines}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Brain Gender

| image = Brain Gender.jpg

| author = Melissa Hines

| language = English

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| pub_date = April 14, 2005

| pages = 336

| isbn = 978-0195188363

}}

Brain Gender is a 2005 biology book by Melissa Hines, published by Oxford University Press.{{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=Susan E. |date=October 2005 |title=Brain Gender |url=https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.56.10.1325 |journal=Psychiatric Services |volume=56 |issue=10 |pages=1325–1325 |doi=10.1176/appi.ps.56.10.1325 |issn=1075-2730|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Tenenbaum |first=Harriet R. |last2=Hill |first2=Darryl B. |date=November 2006 |title=Book Review: Brain Gender |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959353506068789 |journal=Feminism & Psychology |language=en |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=495–501 |doi=10.1177/0959353506068789 |issn=0959-3535|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Leckman |first=James F. |date=June 1, 2005 |title=Book Reviews: BRAIN GENDER. By Melissa Hines. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 307 pp., $49.50 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00030651050530021801 |journal=Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association |language=EN |volume=53 |issue=2 |pages=634–636 |doi=10.1177/00030651050530021801 |issn=0003-0651|url-access=subscription }} Hines is a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge in England. Hines graduated with an undergraduate degree from Princeton, following through with a doctorate in psychology from UCLA.{{cite journal|last1=Rosenthal|first1=Miriam|title=Brain Gender|journal=The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease|date=November 2004|volume=192|issue=11|pages=801–802|doi=10.1097/01.nmd.0000144965.43845.41}}

Brain Gender is a book exploring the biological differences between sex and gender. Hines questions whether different biological differences, such as hormones, affect the way people develop and act. Hines demonstrates the possibilities that genetic, biological, neuroendocrine, behavioral, social, and statistical aspects of born sex affect the differences between males or females in gender roles.{{cite journal|last1=Bodnar|first1=Richard|title=Gender|journal=The Journal of the American Medical Association|date=2004-08-25|volume=292|issue=8}}

In the end of the book, it is concluded that the human tendency to perceive generalized gender differences is not supported by evidence. Biology does not imply a deterministic set of gender creation or identification.