Evolution's Rainbow Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Name: Evolution's Rainbow Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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ISBN: 9780520280458

ISBN-10: 0520280458

ISBN-13: 9780520280458

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joan Roughgarden

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.694



Preface to the 2013 Edition


Preface to the 2009 Edition


Introduction: Diversity Denied



Animal Rainbows



Sex and Diversity



Sex versus Gender



Sex within Bodies



Sex Roles



Two-Gender Families



Multiple-Gender Families



Female Choice



Same-Sex Sexuality



The Theory of Evolution



Human Rainbows



An Embryonic Narrative



Sex Determination



Sex Differences



Gender Identity



Sexual Orientation



Psychological Perspectives



Disease versus Diversity



Genetic Engineering versus Diversity



Cultural Rainbows



Two-Spirits, Mahu, and Hijras



Transgender in Historical Europe and the Middle East



Sexual Relations in Antiquity



Tomboi, Vestidas, and Guevedoche



Trans Politics in the United States


Appendix: Policy Recommendations


Notes


Index