Random House presents the audiobook release of The Gendered Mind by Gina Rippon, go through by Catherine Bailey.

‘A treasure trove of details and good humour’ CORDELIA Good, writer of Testosterone Rex

Do you have a female human brain or a male brain?

Or is that the incorrect question?

Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We reside in a gendered globe where we are bombarded with text messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we encounter deeply ingrained values that your sex determines your skills about The Gendered Mind: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the feminine brain and preferences, from playthings and colors to profession choice and incomes. But what does this continuous gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour? And what does it imply for our brains?

Drawing on her behalf are a teacher of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest occasions and displays how these mail messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even form our brains. Acquiring us back again through decades of sexism, The Gendered Mind reveals how science continues to be misinterpreted or misused to consult the wrong queries. Instead of demanding the status quo, we are still bound by outdated stereotypes and assumptions.

By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary look at of our brains and instead to see these complex organs as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable, and filled with unbounded potential.

Rigorous, well-timed and liberating, The Gendered Brain has large repercussions for women and men, for parents and children, and for how exactly we identify ourselves.