Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology (eBook)

1 IntroductionMalin Ah-King.1.1 Sex or gender?1.2 Cultural influence on science1.3 Implications for society1.4 The chapters2. Fundamental differences between females and males?Root Gorelick, Jessica Carpinone, and Lindsay Jackson Derraugh.2.1 Introduction2.2 Definitions2.3 Deconstruction: debunking accepted differences between females and males2.4 Reconstruction: possible differences between females and males2.5 Concluding remarks2.6 Summary 3 Genes and hormones – what make up an individual's sex?Daniela Crocetti.3.1 Chromosomal Sex3.2 Hormones make the Man, or the Myth that hormones have gender3.3 ConclusionChapter 4 Sexual conflict and the dilemma of stereotyping the sexesJosefin A. Madjidian, Kristina Karlsson Green, Åsa Lankinen.4.1 What is evolution? 4.2 Active males and reactive females – gender stereotypes in sexual conflict research4.3 Stereotyping in sexual conflict research - problems for science and society5 Sex, gender and evolution beyond genesJonathan P. Drury.5.1 An interesting misunderstanding 5.2 Natural selection on non-genetic “sex” traits5.3 Environment, genes, and the evolution of the sexes5.3.1 Genetic accommodation and flexible reproductive behavior5.4 Beyond genes, beyond determinism 6 Beyond coy females and eager males: the evolution of Darwin’s sexual selectionThierry Hoquet. 6.1 Darwin’s sexual selection6.2 Bateman’s hardening of sexual dichotomies6.3 Expanding Bateman’s paradigm6.4 Anisogamy and the feminist challenge to sexual selection6.5 Perspectives: the search for gender-neutral models 7 Human sex differences in height: Evolution due to gender hierarchy?  Priscille Touraille.7.1 The danger of giving birth in humans7.2 Sex differences in the size of mammals: A brief survey7.3 Human sex differences in height7.4 Genetics of height7.5 The classical selective model: increase of male stature  7.6 The missing data in the classical explanation7.7 Hypothesis of nutritional constraints on women’ size selection7.8 Gender order: a decisive piece of the puzzle?7.8 Mate choice: another hypothesis linked to gender7.9 Conclusion 8 How do voices become gendered? A critical examination of everyday and medical constructions of the relationship between voice, sex and gender identityDavid Azul. 8.1 The common-sense view/medical perspective8.2 Challenging the “natural binary”8.3 How voices become ‘appropriately’ and ‘inappropriately’ gendered8.4 Conclusion 9 Parenthood in Norway: Between politics and scienceOle Jacob Madsen.9.1 Scandinavia at the forefront 9.2 Paternity leave9.3 Discussion