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Gender and our brains how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds

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.

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Main Author:	Rippon, Gina (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Cognitive neuroscience. Gender identity > Research.
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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.
Item Description:	"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Gendered Brain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019." -- Title page verso.
Physical Description:	xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781524747022 1524747025
Author Notes:	GINA RIPPON is Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Aston Brain Centre at Aston University in Birmingham, England. Her research involves the use of state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as autism. In 2015 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association for her contributions to the public communication of science. Rippon is part of the European Union Gender Equality Network, belongs to WISE and ScienceGrrl, and is a member of Robert Peston's Speakers for Schools program and the Inspiring the Future initiative. She lives in the United Kingdom.