Pink brain, blue brain
Subtitle: how the surprising new science of sex difference can help us raise our children
By: Lise Eliot.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780618393114
Subjects: Sex differences; Sex differences (Psychology); Developmental neurobiology
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pink and blue in the womb; title: Under the pink or blue blankie; title: Learning through play in the preschool years; title: Starting school; title: The wonder of words; title: Sex, math and science; title: Love and war; title: Truce time.