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Autore |
McCredie Jane |
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Titolo |
Making girls and boys [[electronic resource] ] : inside the science of sex / / Jane McCredie |
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Sydney, : University of New South Wales Press, 2011 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gender identity |
Sex (Psychology) |
Sex determination, Genetic |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; About the Author; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Conceiving girls and boys; The great egg and sperm race; Genes maketh the man; The war of the sexes; 2 The evolving man and woman; Chimp balls and seal blubber; Domesticating humans; 3 Hermes and Aphrodite; Beyond the binary; Restoring order; 4 The sexed brain; The search for difference; Chickens and eggs; 5 Learning gender; Playing with cars; John is a boy, Betty is a girl; The two tribes; 6 The third and many genders; Sex at work; Making men; The third sex; 7 Sexing sexuality |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Is gender really as strightforward as we would like to think? What is it that makes a person a man or woman? Leading us on a journey from chromosones to evolutionary psychology and through to the playground Jane McCredie explores these fascinatiang questions unfolding the story of gender. |
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