Between XX and XY

2009-07-01 Science

Author : Gerald Callahan
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Between XX and XY written by Gerald Callahan. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions—such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome—and includes personal interviews with people living with these conditions telling their surprising and often heart-wrenching stories. Even doctors and scientists are not entirely sure if external genitalia, internal sex organs, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination define a person's sex, but this examination shows that sex is not an either-or proposition: not girl/boy, XX/XY—there are babies born XYY, XXX, or with any dozen or more known variations in the X or Y chromosomes. The history and the current treatment for intersex conditions as well as the options that are available today for the ambiguous child are covered in this captivating account that truly shows what it means to be human.

Who Runs the World?

2017-06-01 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Virginia Bergin
Release : 2017-06-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 044/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Who Runs the World? written by Virginia Bergin. This book was released on 2017-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Matriarchy. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended; greed is not tolerated; the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. In two generations, the female population has grieved, pulled together and moved on, and life really is pretty good - if you're a girl. It's not so great if you're a boy, but fourteen-year-old River wouldn't know that. Until she met Mason, she thought they were extinct.

The XY

2018-11-06 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Virginia Bergin
Release : 2018-11-06
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The XY written by Virginia Bergin. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deluxe edition with a custom transparent jacket—available on the first printing only! From the author of H2O and The Storm—She's been taught to fear him. He's been taught to fear her. What if they're both wrong? In River's world, XYs are a relic of the past, along with things like war and violence. Thanks to the Global Agreements, River's life is simple, safe, and peaceful...until she comes across a body in the road one day. A body that is definitely male, definitely still alive. River isn't prepared for this. There's nothing in the Agreements about how to deal with an XY. Yet one lies before her, sick, suffering, and at her mercy. River can kill him, or she can save him. Either way, nothing will ever be the same. Winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award.

x+y

2020-07-16 Mathematics

Author : Eugenia Cheng
Release : 2020-07-16
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 435/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book x+y written by Eugenia Cheng. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place. Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, Cheng's analysis replaces confusion with clarity, brings original thinking to well worn arguments - and provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.

Xy

1997 Literary Criticism

Author : Elisabeth Badinter
Release : 1997
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 352/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Xy written by Elisabeth Badinter. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability, a psychic space that would accept attitudes and behaviors traditionally labeled as "feminine." This new model, Badinter argues, may reduce the profound effects of homophobia and misogyny.

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