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An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner
"It's stimulating fun when the assumptions and interpretations of scientific findings must undergo major revision. It's more than just fun when that revisionism concerns a subject...at the intersection of masculinity, gender, aggression, hierarchy, race, and class. This subtle, important book forces rethinking…
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1 author picked Testosterone as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
We all think testosterone is the ‘male hormone’–it’s what makes men, well, men. It’s what is measured to decide who is a woman in the Olympics, and it is injected or ingested by some people to become more masculine. But ‘T,’ as this book and many others refer to it, is not as straightforwardly any of the things we think it is–all of these views of T come from how society and ideology have constructed it, sometimes in contradiction to clear fact.
Across 223 detailed but surprisingly engaging pages, the authors show how T has been mythologized and misunderstood, and…
From Scott's list on challenge myths about gender and sex.
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