Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

A breakthrough work in neuroscienceâ€”and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscienceâ€”that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains
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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 what does 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.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
Color White
ReleaseDate 2019-08-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781524747022

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2019-08-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781524747022

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

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