section_path: Science/Biology and gender
section_name: Biology and gender
paragraph_text: Biology and gender
  
  Modern feminism challenges the essentialist view of gender as biologically intrinsic. For example, Anne Fausto-Sterling 's book, Myths of Gender, explores the assumptions embodied in scientific research that support a biologically essentialist view of gender. In Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine disputes scientific evidence that suggests that there is an innate biological difference between men's and women's minds, asserting instead that cultural and societal beliefs are the reason for differences between individuals that are commonly perceived as sex differences.