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The Gendered Brain
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain | Gina Rippon
Gendered brains: a sexist myth, or a fact of life? Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. The belief that your gender determines your skills and preferences, and even if youve got what it takes to become a scientist, is deeply engrained. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her lifes 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 Instead of challenging the status quo, we are still working back from outdated stereotypes and assumptions. However, 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. This is not feminist science its just science.
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Emilymdxn
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Im putting this one in my feminism square for #jennyis30 tho I‘ll probably read a huge pile of books this year that could count! I‘m barrelling through the easier squares but think I need to start including some harder ones hmm. I‘m not a big thriller or suspense reader so I don‘t want to leave them to last. @jenniferw88

BobbiB I like this challenge. There's lots of room for variety in each square. 5y
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Emilymdxn
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4/15 #jumpstart2020 @Clwojick @StayCurious

Enjoyable, interesting and fair minded exploration of the factors that lead to men and women‘s brains being perceived as different and the prejudices and odd experimental methodology that leads to it. I appreciated the nuanced conclusions which were more than ‘men and women are definitely no different‘, but took a lot of factors into account.

#popsugar2020 #womeninstem

Sky_High Thanks for sharing. Definitely gonna read this book. 5y
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shanaqui
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Sex differences are a fascinating topic, but Rippon's book tended toward the soporific for me, somehow. Similar content and criticisms of the field as in Fine's Delusions of Gender -- the takeaway is that there are neurological and psychological differences between the sexes, but they're mostly or wholly caused by brain plasticity and adaptation to societal context. No surprises here for me!

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I've managed to snatch about an hour of reading this! #SummersEndReadathon @Clwojick

I started it at the beginning of August, but I restarted it now because none of the info had actually stuck in my head... I think Cordelia Fine's book was very similar in content but slightly more readable.

Here's Hulk flopping luxuriously over and over now we've finally finished a weekend of tidying the flat and she can run around! #BunniesofLitsy

rabbitprincess So regal! 👑🐰 5y
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