Gender
Subtitle: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780190880026
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Sociology
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; label: 1.
title: Gender 101
pagenum: 1; title: How is gender different from sex?
pagenum: 1; title: What is gender identity?
pagenum: 2; title: What is gender expression?
pagenum: 4; title: What are gender roles?
pagenum: 7; title: What is the gender binary?
pagenum: 10; title: What is gender nonconformity?
pagenum: 11; title: What does it mean to be transgender?
pagenum: 13; title: What does it mean to be intersex?
pagenum: 17; title: Is gender identity based on nature or nurture?
pagenum: 21; title: What does gender have to do with sexuality?
pagenum: 27; label: 2.
title: The History of Gender
pagenum: 30; title: How much do we know about early humans and gender?
pagenum: 30; title: What does evolutionary psychology have to say about gender?
pagenum: 33; title: What is patriarchy?
pagenum: 36; title: What is matriarchy?
pagenum: 37; title: What did gender diversity look like in North America during colonization?
pagenum: 39; title: How has the history of transgender people in the United States evolved since the country’s founding?
pagenum: 40; title: What has trans activism looked like in the 21st century?
pagenum: 45; label: 3.
title: Gender and Biology
pagenum: 48; title: What are the biological differences between male and female bodies?
pagenum: 48; title: How similar or different are male and female brains?
pagenum: 51; title: What are sex chromosomes?
pagenum: 54; title: What does testosterone do?
pagenum: 56; title: What does estrogen do?
pagenum: 60; title: Why do women live longer than men?
pagenum: 62; title: What do we know about sex and gender in nonhuman species?
pagenum: 64; label: 4.
title: Gender, Medicine, and Psychology
pagenum: 68; title: What does gender development in children look like?
pagenum: 68; title: What is gender dysphoria?
pagenum: 73; title: How have trans people historically been approached by the medical field?
pagenum: 73; title: What are the current controversies about transgender identity within psychiatry?
pagenum: 78; title: Why do transgender people have higher rates of mental health concerns?
pagenum: 80; title: What do medical and surgical options look like for transgender people?
pagenum: 83; title: Can transgender people have biological children?
pagenum: 85; title: What role do mental health professionals play in the field of transgender health?
pagenum: 87; title: Why is access to care an issue for transgender people?
pagenum: 89; title: What role has gender played in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns?
pagenum: 92; label: 5.
title: Gender, Society, and Behavior
pagenum: 94; title: What is the social construction of gender?
pagenum: 94; title: Do some cultures have more than two gender options?
pagenum: 96; title: How does language shape the way we think about gender?
pagenum: 100; title: How has culture shaped language about gender?
pagenum: 103; title: What are gender-neutral titles and pronouns?
pagenum: 106; title: How do different major religions understand gender?
pagenum: 107; title: What is the history of gender equality under the law in the United States?
pagenum: 110; title: What is gender-based violence?
pagenum: 115; title: What are the legal protections for transgender people in the United States?
pagenum: 118; label: 6.
title: Contextualizing Gender
pagenum: 125; title: What are the different “waves” of feminism and how are they distinguished?
pagenum: 125; title: What is intersectionality?
pagenum: 132; title: What is misogyny?
pagenum: 133; title: What is “toxic masculinity”?
pagenum: 135; title: What are Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, and Gender Studies?
pagenum: 138; title: What is queer theory?
pagenum: 140; title: What is Trans Studies?
pagenum: 144; title: What is transfeminism?
pagenum: 147; label: 7.
title: The Future of Gender
pagenum: 151; title: How might reproductive technologies revolutionize parenting?
pagenum: 151; title: What is gender-neutral parenting?
pagenum: 153; title: How might new technologies shape our ability to modify the human body?
pagenum: 156; title: What are the current frontiers in gender equality?
pagenum: 159; title: Could the future be genderless? Do we want it to be?
pagenum: 163; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 167; title: Index
pagenum: 181