Gender and our Brains : : how new Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
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Originally published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies, London in 2019.
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.
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Gender and out Brains submitted by WendyStewart on July 13, 2019, 9:34am The Brain ...and this book...are amazing
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781524747022
1524747025
SUBJECTS
Cognitive neuroscience.
Gender identity -- Research.