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

Rippon, Gina

 
9780525435372: Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
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ISBN 10 : 0525435379 ISBN 13 : 9780525435372
Editeur : Vintage, 2020

Synopsis

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 salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? 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. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential.

Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

GINA RIPPON is Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham, England. Her research involves the use of state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as autism. In 2015 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association for her contributions to the public communication of science. Rippon is part of the European Union Gender Equality Network, belongs to WISE and ScienceGrrl, and is a member of Robert Peston's Speakers for Schools program and the Inspiring the Future initiative. She lives in the United Kingdom.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0525435379
ISBN 13 
9780525435372
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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