Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Author: Gina Rippon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A breakthrough work in neuroscience-and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience-that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains 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...Read more