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The Gendered Brain
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
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'Highly accessible...revolutionary to a glorious degree' Observer

Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question?

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.

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.

'A treasure trove of information and good humour' Cordelia Fine, author of Delusions of Gender


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ISBN-13: 9781847924759
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Publication date: February, 2019
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 162.00 x 240.00 x 41.00
Weight: 793g
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Subcategories: Neuroscience

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