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The gendered brain : the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain / Gina Rippon.

By: Rippon, Gina [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Vintage, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxiv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784706814 (paperback).Subject(s): Neuropsychology -- Popular works | Brain -- Psychophysiology -- Popular works | Sex differences (Psychology) | Stereotypes (Social psychology)DDC classification: 612.82082 RIP | 612.82082
Contents:
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).
List(s) this item appears in: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Collection/EDI Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 612.82082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214739
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 612.82082 RIP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38888000953251
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Professor Gina Rippon is an international researcher in the field of cognitive neuroscience based at the Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham. Her research involves the use of state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as autism. She is a regular contributor to events such as the British Science Festival, New Scientist Live and the Sceptics in the Pub series. In 2015 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association for her contributions to the public communication of science.

She is also an advocate for initiatives to help overcome the under-representation of women in STEM subjects. As part of a European Union Gender Equality Network, she has addressed conferences all over the world. She belongs to WISE and ScienceGrrl, and is a member of Robert Peston's Speakers4Schools programme and the Inspiring the Future initiative.

The Gendered Brain is her first book for the general reader.