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The Gendered Brain - The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain (Paperback)
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The Gendered Brain - The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain (Paperback)
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'Highly accessible. It has the power to do vastly more for gender
equality than any number of feminist "manifestos" ... revolutionary
to a glorious degree' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'A treasure trove of
information and good humour' CORDELIA FINE, author of Testosterone
Rex Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the
wrong question? Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego?
We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages
about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained
beliefs that your sex determines your skills and preferences, from
toys and colours to career choice and salaries. But what does this
constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour?
And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a
professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the
stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how
these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our
brains. Taking us back through centuries of sexism, The Gendered
Brain reveals how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask
the wrong questions. Instead of challenging the status quo, we are
still bound by outdated stereotypes and assumptions. However, by
exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move
beyond a binary view of our brains and instead to see these complex
organs as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable and full of
unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, The Gendered
Brain has huge repercussions for women and men, for parents and
children, and for how we identify ourselves.
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