The sexual brain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LeVay, Simon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1994.
Edition:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1309
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess: Genes, Environment, and Sex
  • 2. Time's Millioned Accidents: The Evolution of Sex and Sexual Behavior
  • 3. For a Woman Wert Thou First Created: The Biology of Sexual Development
  • 4. What's in the Brain that Ink May Character?: Some Basic Principles of Brain Organization
  • 5. The Womby Vaultage: A Visit to the Hypothalamus
  • 6. The Beast with Two Backs: The Elements of Sexual Intercourse
  • 7. A Joy Proposed: Courtship Behavior
  • 8. The Child-Changed Mother: Maternal Behavior
  • 9. The Generation of Still-Breeding Thoughts: Brain Circuits for Sexuality
  • 10. My Brain I'll Prove the Female: Sex and Brain Development
  • 11. In All Suits Like a Man: Sex Differences Beyond Sex
  • 12. So Full of Shapes Is Fancy: Sexual Orientation and Its Development
  • 13. Wrapped in a Woman's Hide: Gender Identity and Transsexuality
  • Epilogue. Two Artificial Gods.