Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
Publication information:
Richardson, Sarah S. Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Abstract
Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age.