Details

Description

xvi, 398 pages ; 24 cm

Note

"A Peter Davison book."

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-382) and index.

Contents

ch. 1. Unscrambling the egg: it begins with one perfect solar cell -- ch. 2. Mosaic imagination: understanding the 'female' chromosome -- ch. 3. Default line: is the female body a passive construct? -- ch. 4. Well-tempered clavier: on the evolution of the clitoris -- ch. 5. Suckers and horns: the prodigal uterus -- ch. 6. Mass hysteria: losing the uterus -- ch. 7. Circular reasonings: the story of the breast -- ch. 8. Holy water: breast milk -- ch. 9.

Gray and yellow basket: the bounteous ovary -- ch. 10. Greasing the wheels: a brief history of hormones -- ch. 11. Venus in furs: estrogen and desire -- ch. 12. Mindful menopause: can we live without estrogen? -- ch. 13. There's no place like notoriety: mothers, grandmothers, and other great dames -- ch. 14. Wolf whistles and hyena smiles: testosterone and women -- ch. 15. Spiking the punch: in defense of female aggression -- ch. 16. Cheap meat: learning

to make a muscle -- ch. 17. Labor of love: the chemistry of human bondage -- ch. 18. Of hoggamus and hogwash: putting evolutionary psychology on the couch -- ch. 19. Skeptic in paradise: a call for revolutionary psychology.

Subject

Women -- Physiology.

Women -- Psychology.

Sex differences.

Sex Characteristics.

Women.

ISBN

0395691303