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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'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 Between Men and Women
'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
'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 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
'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
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Lise Eliot is a mother of three, and Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University. She is the author of What's Going On In There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Octavia
Format:Paperback
As a new mother of a daughter I was instinctively against the "Princess-isation" of little girls' childhoods - it seemed too narrow and restrictive and the more I looked around the more I saw examples of unconscious sexism in the media and in children's marketing. I was suspicious of those who seemed to think that boys and girls were 'naturally' different and could (or even should) be treated differently. So I was looking for evidence one way or the other. Are boys and girls really that different?
This book answers that question. It lays to rest a lot of myths about childhood and even points out where some of those myths are making us treat our children in ways that could damage them long-term (for instance the routine circumcision of baby boys in the US without anaesthetic because 'little boys are tough'. Actually they're more vulnerable than girls at this stage.) The book is based on solid neuroscientific research and has made a difference to the way I'm raising my daughter. It will also make a difference to the way I raise my son when he's born in a month or so! I really feel as though this is a book every parent should read.
This book answers that question. It lays to rest a lot of myths about childhood and even points out where some of those myths are making us treat our children in ways that could damage them long-term (for instance the routine circumcision of baby boys in the US without anaesthetic because 'little boys are tough'. Actually they're more vulnerable than girls at this stage.) The book is based on solid neuroscientific research and has made a difference to the way I'm raising my daughter. It will also make a difference to the way I raise my son when he's born in a month or so! I really feel as though this is a book every parent should read.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By LJE
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain is the book I wanted to read years ago before I had my first child. Lise Eliot conducts a thorough review of the scientific evidence on gender differences (innate or developing through brain plasticity) based on biological sex and explains the science and its implications at every step. I finished this book hugely better informed (and with a better understanding of statistics).
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Deb
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Really makes you consider the validity of the evidence you read in so many books on brain research. Would recommend if wanting to look into all points of view.
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