The Adam principle : genes, genitals, hormones, & gender: Selected readings in sexology / John Money

J. Money

Money brings together for the first time forty years of research on the subject of gender identity and gender role. In these original clinical studies, Money examines the connection of gender-identity/role to genetics, hormones, body morphology, brain chemistry, and social assimilation and learning. For the lay reader, Money introduces each study with both a scientific and historical explanation. Much light is shed on the long-standing debate between nature and nurture, and the prime importance of the critical periods of sexual and gender differentiation. The studies comment on what are not politically correct principles of gender, and they show that the Adam principle is, in nature's scheme of things, superimposed on the Eve principle. The development of masculinity is risky business, subject to gender transposition errors.