The fate of gender : nature, nurture, and the human future
Browning, Frank2017
Book
Starting with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous observation that one is not born a woman but instead becomes a woman, Browning goes on to show equally that no one is born a man but learns how to perform as a man, and that there is no fixed way of being masculine or feminine. Increasingly, the categories of "male" and "female" and even "gay" and "straight" seem old-fashioned and reductive. Linking science to culture and behavior, and delving into the lives of individuals challenging historic notions, Browning questions the traditional division of Nature vs. Nurture in everything from plant science to sexual expression, arguing in the end that life consists of an endless waltz between these two ancient notions.
Main title:
The fate of gender : nature, nurture, and the human future / Frank Browning.
Author:
Browning, Frank, author
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.©2016
Collation:
x, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published 2016.Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index.
ISBN:
9781632867568 (paperback)1632867567 (paperback)
Dewey class:
305.3
Language:
English
BRN:
445836