Pink brain, blue brain : how small differences grow into troublesome gaps--and what we can do about it / Lise Eliot.

  • Eliot, Lise.
Date:
2009
  • Books

About this work

Description

A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls are largely shaped by how they spend their time, and offers parents and teachers concrete ways to avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

Publication/Creation

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Physical description

ix, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pink and blue in the womb -- Under the pink or blue blankie -- Learning through play in the preschool years -- Starting school -- The wonder of words -- Sex, math, and science -- Love and war -- Truce time.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WL300 2009E45p
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780618393114
  • 0618393110