Gendered brain (Vintage Publishing)

Barbie or Lego$472 Reading maps or reading emotions$473 Do you have a female brain or a male brain$474 Or is that the wrong question$475 On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that our sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choice and salaries.

But what does this mean for our thoughts, decisions and behaviour$476 Using the latest cutting-edge neuroscience, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains.

Rigorous, timely and liberating, The Gendered Brain has huge repercussions for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.