Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps -- and What We Can Do About It

In this scientific exploration of gender and gender stereotypes, author Lise Eliot sets out to correct the misconceptions we have about about the differences between boys and girls. For far too long, we have considered gender and sex differences to be essential or innate differences rather than differences in social construction and conditioning. Eliot deploys recent neuroscience studies of infant brain function to argue that our brains are extremely malleable and also that small differences at birth become amplified over time. Zeroing in on the crux of the debate - the question of nature versus nurture - Eliot is able to reframe our understanding of the terms of the debate, and in so doing work towards resolving at least one aspect of the ongoing gender wars. A vital read for those interested in contemporary discourse on gender and neuroscience.

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