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Subject(s)

• Cognitive neuroscience [Browse]
• Gender identity—Research [Browse]
• Neuropsychology [Browse]
• Brain—Psychophysiology—Popular works [Browse]
• Sex differences (Psychology) [Browse]
• Stereotypes (Social psychology) [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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).

ISBN

• 1847924751 (hardback)
• 9781847924759 (hardback)
• 184792476X (trade paperback)
• 9781847924766 (trade paperback)

OCLC

1039606041

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