tani 's review for:

The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon

3.0

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I have to admit, this book was a bit of a disappointment to me. The issue of gender differences (or the relative lack thereof) between the genders is one that I'm really interested, so I was pretty excited to read this book. I found that there really wasn't a lot of new-to-me information here. Although I won't claim to be well-versed on all of the studies involved, I didn't find a lot about their findings that surprised me. I also found the formatting of the book to be really repetitive. I thought there was a lot of overlap between each section, and it made it a bit tiresome to read. I kept expecting new information in each section, and instead it felt like everything was just being rehashed over and over again.

I still wouldn't claim that this is a bad book, but it might serve better as an introductory primer to this topic, because at my level of intermediate knowledge on the subject, it felt a bit too much like preaching to the choir.