Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It - Softcover

Eliot, Lise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851687998 ISBN 13: 9781851687992

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Turning conventional thinking about gender differences on its head, Lise Eliot issues a startling call to close the troubling gaps between boys and girls and help all children reach their fullest potential. Drawing on years of exhaustive research and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at birth become amplified over time as parents, teachers, and the culture at large unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes. By focussing on the ways in which differences emerge such prescriptive behaviours can be eradicated, and the boundaries that prevent boys and girls from achieving can be destroyed.

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Review:

“Read her masterful book and you'll never view the sex-differences debate the same way again.” (Sharon Begley - author of The Plastic Mind and senior editor of Newsweek)

"I wish that Pink Brain, Blue Brain had been available when my children were small. Read it if you’re a parent seeking some savvy insight on child rearing, as a teacher looking to help students―or just read it for the pleasure of understanding yourself a little better." (Deborah Blum - Pulitzer Prize winner and author of 'Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Bet)

"Lise Eliot nimbly refutes the overemphasis on sex differences that has dominated popular thinking in our Mars and Venus age--but without resorting to a facile denial of differences, either. This is a lively, marvelously clear and readable book that combines all the latest research on sex differences with smart, sensible and humane advice to parents on how bring out the fullest potential in both boys and girls." (Margaret Talbot - Staff Writer, The New Yorker)

"I can’t stop talking about Pink Brain, Blue Brain. This book will change the way you think about boys, girls, and how we come to be who we are." (Jonah Lehrer - author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist)

"Lise Eliot surveys the real science of sex differences in a way that is clear and careful as well as entertaining, and her advice on everything from public policy to parenting is sensible and scientifically grounded." (Mark Liberman - University of Pennsylvania)

Book Description:

Groundbreaking research opens a new chapter in the Nature vs. Nurture debate

The 2010 smash hit arrives in mass-market paperback!

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1851687998
• ISBN 13: 9781851687992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432