Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female

Burke, Phyllis

ISBN 10: 0385477171 / ISBN 13: 9780385477178

Published by Anchor Books, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385477171
• ISBN 13: 9780385477178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In Gender Shock, Phyllis Burke explodes the many myths surrounding our rigid gender system of male and female by looking through three lenses of gender identity: behavior, appearance, and science. Analyzing the latest research in psychology, genetics, neurology, and sociology, Burke finds that gender (or behavior) is not the result of one's biological sex (the body itself) and that gender and sexuality are separate elements of the self. With common sense and compassion, Burke challenges the notion that men and women are from different planets by revealing how there are more variations within each sex than there are between the two.

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en men are staying at home to parent and women are leaving to practice law, medicine, and politics, America is confused and anxious about what differences truly exist between the sexes. To question one's gender role is to invite chaos, the flux of identity, yet the question persists: In a world of evolving roles for both sexes, how are "masculine" and "feminine" defined?  If women and men are created equal, how then do gender differences emerge?

In Gender Shock, Phyllis Burke explodes the many myths surrounding our rigid gender system of male and female by looking through three lenses of gender identity: Behavior, Appearance, and Science. Combining the latest research in psychology, genetics, neurology, and sociology, Burke finds that gender (or behavior) is not the result of one's biological sex (the body itself); that gender and sexuality are separate elements of the self; that there are more variations within each sex than there are between th