Gender and society essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford

This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, drawn from the Herbert Spencer Lectures at Oxford University. Here, Peter N. Goodfellow, Germaine Greer, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Lucia Jacobs, Michele Le Doeuff, and Susan Cotts Watkins discuss current thinking on sex, gender, and gender and societ...

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Main Author: Blakemore, Colin
Other Authors: Colin Blakemore; Susan Iversen
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2000
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, drawn from the Herbert Spencer Lectures at Oxford University. Here, Peter N. Goodfellow, Germaine Greer, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Lucia Jacobs, Michele Le Doeuff, and Susan Cotts Watkins discuss current thinking on sex, gender, and gender and society. Topics include the socially constructed nature of gender, gender and rape, birth control in the developing world, information processing by men and women, sexual selection, and the interplay of fertility and literacy
Physical Description:205 p.
ill.
23 cm
ISBN:0198297920
9780198297925