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

Hardcover – August 27, 2019
by Gina Rippon (Author)
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Gender and Our Brains is a groundbreaking examination of how neuroscience debunks the long-standing myth that male and female brains are fundamentally different. Gina Rippon, a cognitive neuroimaging expert, exposes the pseudoscience that has historically reinforced sexist assumptions and interrogates the cultural messages that shape our ideas about identity from the moment we’re born.

Rippon argues that the brain is not a hardwired product of biological sex, but a remarkably adaptable organ continually molded by experience and environment. By drawing on cutting-edge research, she challenges gender binaries and reveals how stereotypes affect everything from education and career choices to self-perception and behavior.

Rigorous and deeply illuminating, this book offers a transformative perspective on neuroscience and gender, with powerful implications for equality, social policy, and personal identity. Gender and Our Brains is both an academic breakthrough and a call to rethink how society constructs the idea of difference.

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