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Gender and society : essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford / edited by Colin Blakemore, Susan Iversen. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. - viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.

Sex and molecular biology / Peter N. Goodfellow
Gender and population / Susan Cotts Watkins
Sexual differentiation and cognitive function / Lucia Jacobs
A little learning: women and (intellectual) work / Michèle Le Doeuff
Victims no longer: feminism and the reform of criminal law / Germaine Greer
Raising Darwin's consciousness: sexual selection and the prehominid origins of patriarchy / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy


In this collection of essays, scholars from different and specialized disciplines discuss aspects of sex, gender, and gender and society. The contributing authors include Peter Goodfellow, Germaine Greer and Susan Watkins and each essay was originally delivered at the Herbert Spencer Lectures.


ISBN: 0198297920

LCCN: 99057194

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sex role.
Sex differences.
Women--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: HQ1075 / .G4619 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 305.3 / GEN