Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ah-King, Malin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Crossroads of Knowledge, 1
• Subjects: Psychology.; History.; Evolutionary biology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Gender Studies.; History of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.

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 stereoty...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Fundamental differences between females and males?
• Genes and hormones – what make up an individual's sex?
• Sexual conflict and the dilemma of stereotyping the sexes
• Sex, gender and evolution beyond genes
• Beyond coy females and eager males: the evolution of Darwin’s sexual selection
• Human sex differences in height: Evolution due to gender hierarchy?
• How do voices become gendered? A critical examination of everyday and medical constructions of the relationship between voice, sex and gender identity
• Parenthood in Norway: Between politics and science.