I was so excited for another Cordelia Fine book! This book was very different from Delusions of Gender. Though both books demonstrate Fine's familiarity with research related to notions of biological sex and its complexity and the social ramifications for how gender and biological sex and human behavior are understood, Testosterone Rex felt a bit less measured and a bit more ... edgy? I love it. She is thoughtful and clear. I just wish I could send a copy back in the time machine to me as an undergrad in the anthropology program that took Men-hunter/provider/non-monogamous and Women-nurture/passive/monogamous as unexamined foundational truth.

GNC is capitalizing on the current political millieu with an obnoxious add shouting at men that their testosterone is less than their father's, and his was less than grandpa's--and we're being PUSSIFIED! (and GNC is going to make America macho again). If you're tired of having gender essentialism used to explain why men can never be nurses (testosterone precludes empathy and caregiving!), or why women will never be interested enough in business to be CEOs (maybe we should make calculators pink!), this is a popular science repackaging of the actual scientific articles which demonstrate that hormones often follow behavior, that social and cultural structures are often far more to blame for the way men and women behave (women are also interested in casual sex, when the deck isn't stacked to get them killed of socially shunned) and that taking GNC Testosto-Boost is not going to fix personal insecurities.