Evolution's rainbow [electronic resource] : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden.
Roughgarden, Joan.
2004
QH541.15.B56 .R68 2004eb
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Title Evolution's rainbow [electronic resource] : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden.
Author Roughgarden, Joan.
ISBN 9780520939363 (electronic bk.)
0520240731
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (474 p.)
Call Number QH541.15.B56 .R68 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.3
Summary In this book, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. She takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science - and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a ... discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. She argues that principal elements of Darwinian sexual selection theory are false and suggests a new theory that emphasizes social inclusion and control of access to resources and mating opportunity. She disputes a range of scientific and medical concepts, including Wilson's genetic determinism of behavior, evolutionary psychology, the existence of a gay gene, the role of parenting in determining gender identity, and Dawkins's "selfish gene" as the driver of natural selection. She dares social science to respect the agency and rationality of diverse people shows that many cultures across the world and throughout history accommodate people we label today as lesbian, gay, and transgendered and calls on the Christian religion to acknowledge the Bible's many passages endorsing diversity in gender and sexuality. In the book, she concludes with bold recommendations for improving education in biology, psychology, and medicine for democratizing genetic engineering and medical practice and for building a public monument to affirm diversity as one of our nation's defining principles.
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Introduction : Diversity denied
pt. I. 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
pt. II. Human rainbows.
An embryonic narrative
Sex determination
Sex differences
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Psychological perspectives
Disease versus diversity
Genetic engineering versus diversity
pt. III. 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.

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