Gender and Our Brains Rippon Gina
Gender and Our Brains Rippon Gina 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…
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Gender and Our Brains Rippon Gina
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 brainsWe live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries.
By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a And what does it mean for our brains?Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains.