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A Critique of the Extreme-Male-Brain Theory of Autism
by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg In his 1999 paper The extreme-male-brain theory of autism, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen posits a dichotomy between the empathizing female brain and the systematizing male …