Screen LibraryThe gendered brain : the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain /
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...
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The Bodley Head,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 earlies |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 424 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781847924766 184792476X 9781847924759 1847924751 |
| Index Number: | QP360 |
| CLC: | B845.1 |
| Call Number: | B845.1/R593 |
| 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 upd |