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Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and 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 stereotypes in humans. The first chapters explore important What are the fundamental sex differences? How do genes and hormones influence an individual’s sex? Subsequent chapters concern topics sex stereotypes in the field of sexual conflict, how the focus on genes in evolutionary biology disregards other means of inheritance, and the development of Darwin's theory of sex differences. The last three chapters look at humans, an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of sex differences in body height, biological versus social constructive perspectives on the gendering of voices and nature-culture arguments in the current political debate on paternity leave in Norway.
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112 pages, Paperback
First published October 31, 2013
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March 1, 2014
Truly terrible. This "scholarly" work is 100 pages, and available for the low-low price of $100. I thought the text must be spun from pure gold to be worth it, but was terribly disappointed.
Everything said in this book has been said by someone else before. And that someone else has said it better. The writing is atrocious, with constant insertion of empty jargon and meaningless catch phrases. The various pieces in the book allude to legitimate scholarship, but the pieces themselves make terrible logical errors, focus on irrelevant side details, and consistently miss the mark.
This book reads as if it was little more than an excuse for each of the authors to have something published in a "scholarly" collection. And I suspect that this is exactly what the book is -- a self-congratulatory gesture that never even attempted to cater to its audience or offer anything of value.
Everything said in this book has been said by someone else before. And that someone else has said it better. The writing is atrocious, with constant insertion of empty jargon and meaningless catch phrases. The various pieces in the book allude to legitimate scholarship, but the pieces themselves make terrible logical errors, focus on irrelevant side details, and consistently miss the mark.
This book reads as if it was little more than an excuse for each of the authors to have something published in a "scholarly" collection. And I suspect that this is exactly what the book is -- a self-congratulatory gesture that never even attempted to cater to its audience or offer anything of value.
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