Heinz-Jürgen Voß
The Intricacy of the Human Sexes
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Buchreihe: Angewandte Sexualwissenschaft (ISSN: 2367-2420)
Verlag: Psychosozial-Verlag
171 Seiten, Broschur, 148 x 210 mm
1. English edition 2021
Erschienen im November 2021
ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-3121-1, Bestell-Nr.: 3121
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837978063Translated by Anton Hieke
Little defines human life more than the biological sexes. The
concept of the binary sexes greatly affects our choices given in
society, our income, and our visibility. Moreover, it is also the
root for profound discrimination. Today, the idea that the binary
sexes are nature-given is so intrinsically woven into the fabric of
human life that we tend to forget just how modern the concept is.
We also tend to forget that it does not have to be more than a bump
on the path to a just society.
Drawing from philosophical, historical, and biological
perspectives, the author challenges existing beliefs in the
inevitability of the binary nature of the human sexes. The study
compellingly argues for the existence of many biological sexes, not
merely two. It also outlines just how otherwise overcome
assumptions still shape our seemingly modern understanding of the
most basic classification of our societies: that of the biological
sexes and the attributes piled upon them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Foreword to the English Translation of the 4th Edition
Foreword to the 1st German Edition
Introduction
Women and some Men against Naturalness
History and
Topicality: Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler
Why considering »Naturalness«?
Contra »Naturalness« – Emancipatory Arguing for the Education of
Women
Differences as the Product of Society:The Human Being as a Social
One
Poverty and Limiting Recent Gender Research to the
Privileged Classes
The Human Being as a Social One
Evolutionary Thinking and its Potential for Social Change
Historical Biological Theories of Sex – Theories of Two or
More Sexes
Too Simplistic: The Current State of
Research in Gender Studies
Concerning the Biological Theories of the
Sexes
Antiquity – The »One-Sex« and »Two-Sex« Models
The Middle-Ages – Not Just Reducing but Creative
Humorism and the Theory of the Temperaments
Theories of Preformation in the Seventeenth Century – Describing
Differences of the Sexes
The Transition to the Developmental Concept (Epigenesis) –
Descriptions of Sameness May Tie In
Analogy and Sameness, as Tied in With Developmental Theories
Human Beings are Paired in Themselves – Being Adult »Female-Males«
and »Male-Females«
»Activity«, »Advancement«, »Lag« –
Descriptions of the Differences of the Sexes Which Tie in with
Developmental Theories
Detailed Descriptions of Differences
»Newer« Evolutionary Theories After Charles Dawin –
Differences of the Sexes and Emancipatory »Romanticizing
Darwin«
Conclusions
Current Biological Theories of the Sexes
The
Sexes between Brain, Muscles, and Microscopic Particles
Procreation as a Characteristic of the Species – and the Individual
Form of Human Genitalia
The Formation of the Genitalia in the Development of the Embryo
Gonads, Germ Cells and Eventually Chromosomes and Genes: Do They
Prove Sexual Binarity?
Development and Differentiation:
The Transition to Process Orientation in Current Theories of the
Development of the Sexes
Conclusions
Closing
Quoted and Recommended (*) Literature
Rezensionen
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@BartalYossi auf twitter am 2. Dezember 2021
Rezension von Yossi Bartal
»Wonderful to have @hjvoss book challenging the concept of two biological sexes also in English - I would tell you to buy it as a Hanukkah present, but it/'s also avaliable online for free!…«
