The gendered brain

the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain

Summary: 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

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Introduction: Whac-a-Mole myths -- Sex, gender, sex/gender or gender/sex: a note on sex and gender ; Inside her pretty little head -- the hunt begins -- Her raging hormones -- The rise of psychobabble -- Brain myths, neurotrash and neurosexism ; The twenty-first-century brain -- Your social brain ; Baby matters -- to begin at the beginning (or even a little bit before) -- Let's hear it for the babies -- The gendered waters in which we swim -- the pink and blue tsunami ; Sex and science -- Science and the brain -- Good girls don't -- Inside her pretty little head -- a twenty-first-century update -- Mars, Venus or Earth? -- have we been wrong about sex all along? -- Raising dauntless daughters (and sympathetic sons)

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