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Sex Science Self A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity / Bob Ostertag.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostertag, Bob, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity.
- Transgender Persons.
- Sex.
- Chemotherapy--economics.
- Chemotherapy.
- Chemotherapy--history.
- Gonadal Steroid Hormones.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In Sex Science Self , Bob Ostertag cautions against accepting and defending any technology uncritically--even, maybe even especially, a technology that has become integrally related to identity.Specifically, he examines the development of estrogen and testosterone as pharmaceuticals.
- Contents:
- Before pharmaceuticals
- The "male sex hormone" and the testosterone gold rush
- The "female sex hormone," the goddess of fortune
- The estrogen mess
- The testosterone comeback
- "Sex hormones" redux; not yours, your mother's
- Brain organization theory
- The contemporary landscape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-421-9
- OCLC:
- 963580306
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