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Gendered Brain

The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

byGina Rippon

Genres: Nonfiction Feminism Science Gender Equality Debates Feminist Literary Criticism Data-Driven Societal Analysis

Who is this book for? Readers interested in gender studies, neuroscience, and feminist literature.

Topics IdentityGender Roles and ExpectationsSocial Class

MoodReflective

Female protagonist

Gendered brains: a sexist myth, or a fact of life? Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. The belief that your gender determines your skills and preferences, and even if you've got what it takes to become a scientist, is deeply engrained. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her life's 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 Instead of challenging the status quo, we are still working back from outdated stereotypes and assumptions.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. This is not feminist science - it's just science.

Language

Published on

01/01/2019

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781847924766

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