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With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain.





For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or larger than in men, or because they have more or less of this or that hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true?


According to neuroscientist Daphna Joel, it's not. And in Gender Mosaic, she sets forth a bold and compelling argument that debunks the notion of female and male brains. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, including the groundbreaking results of her own studies, Dr. Joel explains that every human brain is a unique mixture — or mosaic — of "male" and "female" features, and that these mosaics don't map neatly into two categories.


With urgent practical implications for the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, Gender Mosaic is a fascinating look at the science of gender, sex and the brain, and at how freeing ourselves from the gender binary can help us all reach our full human potential.

ISBN-13: 9780316534611

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Little - Brown and Company

Publication Date: 09-17-2019

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Daphna Joel, PhD, is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She has combined her expertise as a neuroscientist with her interest in gender studies to revolutionize the field of sex, brain and gender. In her research, Dr. Joel uses a wide range of analytical methods to analyze diverse datasets, from large collections of brain scans to information obtained with self-report questionnaires. Luba Vikhanski graduated from New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and works as a science writer at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She has written three books, most recently, Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine.

Table of Contents

Part I Sex and the Brain

1 My Awakening 3

2 A History of Twisted Facts 8

3 As the Differences Pile Up 16

4 Nature vs. Nurture 23

Part II The Human Mosaic

5 Brains in Flux 35

6 Not by Sex Alone 46

7 Mosaic of the Human Brain 54

8 Now You See It, Now You Don't 64

9 In Anticipation of a Blind Date 69

10 Brain "Types," Common and Rare 73

11 Men and Women Under Stress 80

12 The Human Health Mosaic 87

13 Mosaic of the Mind 94

Part III What's Wrong with Gender

14 From the Binary to a Mosaic 103

15 Gender Illusions 107

16 Binary Brainwashing 115

Part IV Toward a World Without Gender

17 How to Deal with Gender Myths 127

18 Gender Blending 136

19 Gender-Free Education 143

20 Ungendering Our Children 153

21 Gender Awareness 160

22 Taking Action 167

23 Vision 176

Acknowledgments 181

Notes 187

Suggested Reading 204

Daphna Joel's Publications on Sex, Brain, and Gender 205

Index 208