Overview
- Deepens the readers’ understanding of biology, sex and gender by going beyond popular conceptions
- Offers a critique of conventional understandings of sex and gender
- Demonstrates that current research findings suggest alternative ways of conceiving of sex, gender and biology
- Opens up a space for variable and non-static views of sex and gender?
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume challenges popular notions of sex, gender and biology and features international, trans-disciplinary research. The book begins with an exploration of supposedly ‘natural’ sexual differences, then looks at research in evolutionary biology and examines topics such as gender stereotypes in humans.
The first chapters explore important questions: What are the fundamental sex differences? How do genes and hormones influence an individual’s sex? Subsequent chapters concern topics including: sex stereotypes in the field of sexual conflict, how the focus on genes in evolutionary biology disregards other means of inheritance, and the development of Darwin's theory of sex differences.
The last three chapters look at humans, discussing: an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of sex differences in body height, biological versus social constructive perspectives on the gendering of voices and nature-culture arguments in the current political debate on paternity leave in Norway.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology
Editors: Malin Ah-King
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01979-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01978-9Published: 12 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34881-0Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01979-6Published: 27 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2197-9634
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 104
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, History of Science, Evolutionary Biology