Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology

1 Introduction

Malin Ah-King.

1.1 Sex or gender?

1.2 Cultural influence on science

1.3 Implications for society

1.4 The chapters

2. Fundamental differences between females and males?

Root Gorelick, Jessica Carpinone, and Lindsay Jackson Derraugh.

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Definitions

2.3 Deconstruction: debunking accepted differences between females and males

2.4 Reconstruction: possible differences between females and males

2.5 Concluding remarks

2.6 Summary

3 Genes and hormones - what make up an individual's sex?

Daniela Crocetti.

3.1 Chromosomal Sex

3.2 Hormones make the Man, or the Myth that hormones have gender

3.3 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Sexual conflict and the dilemma of stereotyping the sexes

Josefin A. Madjidian, Kristina Karlsson Green, Åsa Lankinen.

4.1 What is evolution?

4.2 Active males and reactive females - gender stereotypes in sexual conflict research

4.3 Stereotyping in sexual conflict research - problems for science and society

5 Sex, gender and evolution beyond genes

Jonathan P. Drury.

5.1 An interesting misunderstanding

5.2 Natural selection on non-genetic "sex" traits

5.3 Environment, genes, and the evolution of the sexes

5.3.1 Genetic accommodation and flexible reproductive behavior

5.4 Beyond genes, beyond determinism

6 Beyond coy females and eager males: the evolution of Darwin's sexual selection

Thierry Hoquet.

6.1 Darwin's sexual selection

6.2 Bateman's hardening of sexual dichotomies

6.3 Expanding Bateman's paradigm

6.4 Anisogamy and the feminist challenge to sexual selection

6.5 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 humans

7.2 Sex differences in the size of mammals: A brief survey

7.3 Human sex differences in height

7.4 Genetics of height

7.5 The classical selective model: increase of male stature

7.6 The missing data in the classical explanation

7.7 Hypothesis of nutritional constraints on women' size selection

7.8 Gender order: a decisive piece of the puzzle?

7.8 Mate choice: another hypothesis linked to gender

7.9 Conclusion

8 How do voices become gendered? A critical examination of everyday and medical constructions of the relationship between voice, sex and gender identity

David Azul.

8.1 The common-sense view/medical perspective

8.2 Challenging the "natural binary"

8.3 How voices become 'appropriately' and 'inappropriately' gendered

8.4 Conclusion

9 Parenthood in Norway: Between politics and science

Ole Jacob Madsen.

9.1 Scandinavia at the forefront

9.2 Paternity leave

9.3 Discussion