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Evolution’s Rainbow

Joan Roughgarden

How varied are sex, gender and sexuality across animals and people, and why does existing science struggle to account for that variety?

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Author
Joan Roughgarden

Why read it

  • You will see how wide the range of sex, gender and sexuality is across animals and people
  • You will understand how the idea that animals follow simple male and female roles does not hold up in real species
  • You will learn to look at a topic like a field biologist, collecting what is out there before explaining it

Who it is for

  • Readers who want the biology of sex and gender, not just opinion
  • Students of evolution who doubt tidy male and female stories
  • Anyone talking about gender with family or colleagues who wants facts

Contents

  1. Preface to the 2013 Edition
  2. Preface to the 2009 Edition
  3. Introduction: Diversity Denied
  4. Part One Animal Rainbows
  5. 1 Sex and Diversity
  6. 2 Sex versus Gender
  7. 3 Sex within Bodies
  8. 4 Sex Roles
  9. 5 Two-Gender Families
  10. 6 Multiple-Gender Families
  11. 7 Female Choice
  12. 8 Same-Sex Sexuality
  13. 9 The Theory of Evolution
  14. Part Two Human Rainbows
  15. 10 An Embryonic Narrative
  16. 11 Sex Determination
  17. 12 Sex Differences
  18. 13 Gender Identity
  19. 14 Sexual Orientation
  20. 15 Psychological Perspectives
  21. 16 Disease versus Diversity
  22. 17 Genetic Engineering versus Diversity
  23. Part Three Cultural Rainbows
  24. 18 Two-Spirits, Mahu, and Hijras
  25. 19 Transgender in Historical Europe and the Middle East
  26. 20 Sexual Relations in Antiquity
  27. 21 Tomboi, Vestidas, and Guevedoche
  28. 22 Trans Politics in the United States
  29. Appendix: Policy Recommendations

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