diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Roughgarden, Joan
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5724 - B
- Thesaurus
- biologie, sekse, dieren, sociobiologie, identiteit, diversiteit, cultuur, homoseksualiteit, transgenders
- Description
- Roughgarden exposes how biology, medicine, anthropology and Christianity have obstructed the recognition and acceptance of diversity in animals and human being. The book 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 behaviour. Roughgarden reconstructs biology in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism. The book is divided into three parts: 'animal rainbows' in which ecology and evolution is discussed: 'human rainbows' in which the areas of biology are focussed on human development: and 'cultural rainbows' offers the gender and sexuality variation across cultures and history.