Gender and our brains : how new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds / Gina Rippon.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: whac-a-mole myths -- Sex, gender, sex/gender or gender/sex: a note on gender and sex -- 1. Inside her pretty little head - the hunt begins -- 2. Her raging hormones -- 3. The rise of psychobabble -- 4. Brain myths, neurotrash and neurosexism -- 5. The twenty-first-century brain -- 6. Your social brain -- 7. Baby matters - to begin at the beginning (or even a bit before) -- 8. Let's hear it for the babies -- 9. The gendered waters in which we swim - the pink and blue tsunami -- 10. Sex and science -- 11. Science and the brain -- 12. Good girls don't -- 13. Inside her pretty little head - a twenty-first-century update -- 14. Mars, Venus or Earth? Have we been wrong about sex all along? -- Conclusion: Raising dauntless daughters (and sympathetic sons).

"A breakthrough work in neuroscience - and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudo-science - that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains."--Book jacket.