Feminism

=== Biology and gender ===
{{further|Gender essentialism|Sexual differentiation}}
Modern feminism challenges the essentialist view of [[gender]] as biologically intrinsic.<ref>{{cite book |last=Code |first=Lorraine |title=Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-415-13274-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffe0000unse/page/89 89] |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffe0000unse/page/89 }}</ref><ref>Bern, Sandra L., ''The lenses of gender: transforming the debate on sexual inequality'', Yale University Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-300-05676-1}}, p. 6.</ref> 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.<ref name="Fausto-Sterling">{{Cite book |last=Fausto-Sterling |first=Anne |title=Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men |year=1992 |publisher=BasicBooks |location=New York, New York |isbn=978-0-465-04792-5}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fine |first=Cordelia |author-link=Cordelia Fine|title=Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2010}}{{page needed|date=October 2012}}</ref>