Advance Kudos for The Truth About Girls and Boys:
BRAVO! Engaging and accessible. Takes the reader on a critical and clarifying tour of claims about categorical, biologically-based sex differences. This book will be a significant contribution to an area of heated debate and
policy struggle. Parents, teachers, and policy-makers can turn to it as a
reliable guide through a thicket of hype and over-claiming. “Truth” will help readers approach “science” claims with a needed dose of skepticism --
Barrie Thorne, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies,
UC Berkeley
This book is badly needed. It is very up to date – really right at the cutting edge of the issues and the available data.
Synthesizes a remarkable amount of data in a well focused and coherent way. It’s written with a great, readable, breezy journalistic style.--Janet Hyde, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
A bracing antidote to the conventional wisdom. Like Malcolm Gladwell, Rivers and
Barnett take the reader into the world of research and emerge with
surprising--and unsettling--conclusions. Teachers, educators, parents,
journalists and researchers would do well to read this book before hopping on
the bandwagon about the "differences" between boys and girls.--Jonathan Kaufman, Education Editor, Bloomberg News Author, "Broken Alliance" and
"A Hole in the Heart of the World"
“The Truth About Girls and Boys” is exactly that—the real story about over-hyped claims of sex differences and how they are
harming boys and girls. Rivers and Barnett expose the sloppy journalism that
has allowed pseudoscientific ideas to percolate into our collective beliefs
about gender development. Parents, teachers, and policy-makers will do well to
read this book—to rescue today’s boys and girls from the false claims of “hardwired” differences that are limiting their learning and stunting their futures.--
Lise Eliot, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University, author of “Pink Brain, Blue Brain”
You can't afford not to read this "game changing" book and ponder its meaning. This
meticulously researched, evidence-based book is written in a highly readable
style and filled with practical suggestions which will be useful to gender
researchers, policy makers and parents alike. Don't put it down. It will open your eyes to dangerous gender stereotypes that are
quickly becoming adopted in our schools without the requisite critical thinking
required to stop us, in time, from reeling dangerously off course. --
William S. Pollack, Ph.D,
Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School, author of the international
bestseller, "Real Boys"
The gloves are off. Rivers and Barnett provide a convincing case that much of
what parents, teachers, and the general public know about differences between
girls and boys is based on highly publicized accounts of shoddy and misleading
science. They provide readers with an understanding of the ways girls and boys
are similar and different and how we can use that knowledge to raise happy,
healthy, and successful children.-- Diane F. Halpern, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna
College, past president, American Psychological Association, author of "Sex
Differences in Cognitive Abilities"
