Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology
Editors: Ah-King, Malin (Ed.)
Free Preview- Gives insights into the complexity and variety of notions of sex, gender and biology
- Enables an understanding of biology that goes beyond popular conceptions of sex differences
- Presents international research on current topics of debate, written in an accessible form
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Fundamental Differences Between Females and Males?
Pages 9-22
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Genes and Hormones: What Make Up an Individual’s Sex
Pages 23-32
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Sexual Conflict and the Dilemma of Stereotyping the Sexes
Pages 33-42
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Sex, Gender, and Evolution Beyond Genes
Pages 43-52
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology
- Editors
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- Malin Ah-King
- Series Title
- Crossroads of Knowledge
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-01979-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-01979-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-01978-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-34881-0
- Series ISSN
- 2197-9634
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 104
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
