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Gender and our brains, how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds, Gina Rippon

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Gender and our brains, how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds, Gina Rippon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gender and our brains

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gina Rippon

Sub title

how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds

Summary

We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But whatdoes this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience,Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves

Target audience

adult

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How new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female mind

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