Does it understand maps or interpret emotions? Barbie or Lego? Does it have a female brain or a male brain? Or is this the wrong question?

We live in a gendered world, constantly bombarded with messages about the two sexes. We are confronted daily with deeply ingrained beliefs that our gender determines our aptitudes and preferences, from toys and colors to education and salaries. But what does all this mean for our decisions and behavior? And for our brains?

Drawing on her work as a professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unravels the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest days and demonstrates how these messages shape our understanding of ourselves and even our brains.

With her exploration of cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of our brains and see them as complex, highly individualized, profoundly adaptable organs brimming with limitless potential.

Rigorous, timely, and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has immense repercussions for women and men, parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.