Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain

In this neuroscientific look at gender and brain chemistry, author and doctor Daphna Joel investigates the persistent myth that there is something fundamentally different about male and female brains. The myth goes something like this: men are more aggressive and sexual, whereas women are more sensitive emotional. But there is no basis in science for this widespread cultural assumption. Instead, Joel argues that each brain is a unique mixture of features we would identify - from a sociocultural standpoint - as 'male' or 'female.' Every brain has a unique chemistry, and the only reason we map gendered meanings onto these features is our tendency as a society to understand purely chemical interactions as holding sociocultural meaning. An urgently needed book that deconstructs our understandings of gender and reorients the way we think about ourselves.

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