The Gendered Brain
The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
2019 • 448 pages
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Average rating3.5
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The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
Barbie or Lego? Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that our sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choice and salaries. But what does this mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? Using the latest cutting-edge neuroscience, 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. Rigorous, timely and liberating, The Gendered Brain has huge repercussions for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves. ‘Highly accessible... Revolutionary to a glorious degree’ Observer
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Rating: 3.5/5
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Great content, a few great quotes having to do with living in the gendered world, and the debunking of the age-old myth of male and female brains. However, I struggled with reading this one and I don't really know why. The complex intertwined nature of nature vs. nurture is interesting to me and I agree with Rippon that we can't know how these two concepts make up a person and to assume something is just one of these may not be representative of the whole truth.
