Is there a male and a female brain? Only “male” and “female” traits? What role does gender play in our lives, and why do we behave the way we do? How do stereotypes limit us and our children’s development, and how do they impose roles?
Daphne Joel, a neurobiologist from Israel and a follower of neurofeminism, provides answers to these questions. Over the years of research, she studied thousands of human brain MRIs and consulted leading neurobiologists, which allowed her to develop and describe the concept of a gender mosaic. According to it, each person’s brain possesses characteristics that society assigns to the male or female gender.
This book was written together with Luba Vikhanskaya, who helped make the text accessible and understandable to everyone interested in issues of sex differences and the problems of gender inequality.