Making girls and boys [[electronic resource] ] : inside the science of sex / / Jane McCredie
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Sydney, : University of New South Wales Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gender identity |
| Sex (Psychology) | |
| Sex determination, Genetic | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making girls and boys |
| ISBN: | 1-74224-549-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453647403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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