The gendered brain : the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Rippon, Gina2019
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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 earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains.
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Author:
Rippon, Gina, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2019.
Collation:
xxii, 424 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847924759 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
612.82082612.8612.8 RIP
Language:
English
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BRN:
1181248
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