Anne Fausto-Sterling

Sex/Gender (eBook, PDF)

Biology in a Social World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136465949
• Artikelnr.: 38270025

Autorenporträt

Anne Fausto-Sterling, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, is a leading expert on the development of gender identity as well as the biology of gender. Her latest research analyzes the emergence of behavioral differences between the sexes in early childhood. She is the author of two earlier books: Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men (Basic, 1993) and Sexing the Body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality (Basic, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Genderless Future? Chapter 2: Of Spirals and Layers. Chapter
3: Of Molecules and Sex. Chapter 4: Of Hormones and Brains. Chapter Five:
Am I a Boy or a Girl?-- The Emergence of Gender Identity. Chapter 6:
Thinking about Homosexuality. Chapter 7: Thinking about Groups; Thinking
about Individuals. Chapter 8: Pink and Blue Forever. Chapter 9: The
Developmental Dynamics of Pink and Blue. Chapter 10: Epilogue:The Future of
Gender (and Sex).