Gender and our brains : how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds
by Rippon, Gina (Author)
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Summary
Rippon presents a breakthrough work in neuroscience and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudo-science, finally debunking the myth that there is a biological distinction between male and female brains. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Inside her pretty little head
- the hunt begins
- Chapter 2: Her raging hormones
- Chapter 3: The rise of psychobabble
- Chapter 4: Brain myths, neurotrash and neurosexism
- Chapter 5: The twenty-first century brain
- Chapter 6: Your social brain
- Chapter 7: Baby matters
- to begin at the beginning (or even a bit before)
- Chapter 8: Let's hear it for the babies
- Chapter 9: The gendered waters in which we swim
- the pink and blue tsunami
- Chapter 10: Sex and science
- Chapter 11: Science and the brain
- Chapter 12: Good girls don't
- Chapter 13: Inside her pretty little head
- a twenty-first century update
- Chapter 14: Mars, Venus or Earth? Have we been wrong about sex all along?
- Conclusion: Raising dauntless daughters (and sympathetic sons).