Gender and Society Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford

by Blakemore, Colin; Iversen, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780198297925
• ISBN10: 0198297920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	vi
List of Contributors	vii
Sex and Molecular Biology	1	(12)
Peter N. Goodfellow
Gender and Population	13	(42)
Susan Cotts Watkins
Sexual Differentiation and Cognitive Function	55	(42)
Lucia Jacobs
A Little Learning: Women and (Intellectual) Work	97	(20)
Michele Le Doeuff
Victims No Longer: Feminism and the Reform of Criminal Law	117	(26)
Germaine Greer
Raising Darwin's Consciousness: Sexual Selection and the Prehominid Origins of Patriarchy	143	(58)
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Index	201