Making girls and boys : inside the science of sex / Jane McCredie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCredie, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Sex (Psychology).

Genetic sex determination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.

ISBN:

9781742240237

1742240232

9781742245492

1742245498

OCLC:

751695588