Evolution's rainbow [electronic reso...
Roughgarden, Joan.

 

  • Evolution's rainbow [electronic resource] :diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 305.3
    書名/作者: Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people // Joan Roughgarden.
    作者: Roughgarden, Joan.
    出版者: [Berkeley, CA] : : University of California Press,, 2013.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (491 p.)
    標題: Biodiversity.
    標題: Sexual behavior in animals.
    標題: Gender identity.
    標題: Sexual orientation.
    標題: Gender nonconformity.
    標題: Sex role
    標題: Sexual selection.
    ISBN: 9780520957978
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people -- Contents -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Preface to the 2009 Edition -- Introduction: Diversity Denied -- Part One: Animal Rainbows -- 1. Sex and Diversity -- 2. Sex versus Gender -- 3. Sex within Bodies -- 4. Sex Roles -- 5. Two-Gender Families -- 6. Multiple-Gender Families -- 7. Female Choice -- 8. Same-Sex Sexuality -- 9. The Theory of Evolution -- Part Two: Human Rainbows -- 10. An Embryonic Narrative -- 11. Sex Determination -- 12. Sex Differences -- 13. Gender Identity -- 14. Sexual Orientation -- 15. Psychological Perspectives -- 16. Disease versus Diversity -- 17. Genetic Engineering versus Diversity -- Part Three: Cultural Rainbows -- 18. Two-Spirits, Mahu, and Hijras -- 19. Transgender in Historical Europe and the Middle East -- 20. Sexual Relations in Antiquity -- 21. Tomboi, Vestidas, and Guevedoche -- 22. Trans Politics in the United States -- Appendix: Policy Recommendations -- Notes -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. Witty, playful, and daring, this book will revolutionize our understanding of sexuality...
    電子資源: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/UCPB0000626.html
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