The gendered brain : the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain / Gina Rippon.
- Rippon, Gina
- Date:
- 2019
- Books
About this work
Description
"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 Instead of challenging the status quo, we are still bound by outdated stereotypes and assumptions. 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." --Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
London : The Bodley Head, 2019.
Physical description
xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Introduction: Whac-a-Mole myths -- Sex, gender, sex/gender or gender/sex: a note on sex and gender -- Inside her pretty little head - the hunt begins -- Her raging hormones -- The rise of psychobabble -- Brain myths, neurotrash and neurosexism -- The twenty-first-century brain -- Your social brain -- Baby matters - to begin at the beginning (or even a little bit before) -- Let's hear it for the babies -- The gendered waters in which we swim - the pink and blue tsunami -- Sex and science -- Science and the brain -- Good girls don't -- Inside her pretty little head - a twenty-first-century update -- Mars, Venus or Earth? - have we been wrong about sex all along? -- Raising dauntless daughters (and sympathetic sons) -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePI.WOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781847924759