The Gendered Brain
- Author Dr Gina Rippon
- Narrator Catherine Bailey
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 28 February 2019
- Run Time 12 hours and 55 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Gender studies: women and girls, Neurosciences, Popular science, Psychology of gender.
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon, read by Catherine Bailey.
'A treasure trove of information and good humour' CORDELIA FINE, author of Testosterone Rex
Do you have a female brain or a male brain?
Or is that the wrong question?
Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your sex determines your skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our brains?
Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, 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. Taking us back through centuries of sexism, The Gendered Brain reveals how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions. Instead of challenging the status quo, we are still bound by outdated stereotypes and assumptions.
By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of our brains and instead to see these complex organs as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable, and full of unbounded potential.
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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| Author | Dr Gina Rippon |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Catherine Bailey |
| Duration | 12 hours and 55 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781473568402 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Gender studies: women and girls, Neurosciences, Popular science, Psychology of gender |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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