Rippon presents a breakthrough work in neuroscience and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudo-science, finally debunking the myth that there is a biological distinction between male and female brains.

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Gendered Brain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019." -- Title page verso.

Introduction: whac-a-mole myths -- Sex, gender, sex/gender or gender/sex: a note on gender and sex -- Chapter 1: Inside her pretty little head--the hunt begins -- Chapter 2: Her raging hormones -- Chapter 3: The rise of psychobabble -- Chapter 4: Brain myths, neurotrash and neurosexism -- Chapter 5: The twenty-first-century brain -- Chapter 6: Your social brain -- Chapter 7: Baby matters--to begin at the beginning (or even a bit before) -- Chapter 8: Let's hear it for the babies -- Chapter 9: The gendered waters in which we swim--the pink and blue tsunami -- Chapter 10: Sex and science -- Chapter 11: Science and the brain -- Chapter 12: Good girls don't -- Chapter 13: Inside her pretty little head--a twenty-first-century update -- Chapter 14: Mars, Venus or Earth? Have we been wrong about sex all along? -- Conclusion: Raising dauntless daughters (and sympathetic sons).