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Control # 1 2019012123
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20210709110907.0
Fixed Data 8 190404s2019 mau b 001 0 eng c
LC Card 10    $a 2019012123
ISBN 20    $a9780674725324$q(hardcover : alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a327714$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aMH/DLC$beng$cMH$erda$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aQP572.T4$bJ67 2019
Dewey Class 82 00 $a612.6/1$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aJordan-Young, Rebecca M.,$d1963-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aTestosterone :$ban unauthorized biography /$cRebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis.
Tag 264 264  1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2019.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a274 pages ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $aTestosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social ills, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation of men in prisons to male dominance in business and politics. It's a lot to pin on a simple molecule. Yet your testosterone level doesn't in fact predict your competitive drive or tendency for violence, your appetite for risk or sex, or your strength or athletic prowess. It's neither the biological essence of manliness nor even "the male sex hormone." This unauthorized biography pries T, as it's known, loose from over a century of misconceptions that undermine science even as they make urban legends about this hormone seem scientific. T's story didn't spring from nature: it is a tale that began long before the hormone was even isolated, when nineteenth-century scientists went looking for the chemical essence of masculinity. And so this molecule's outmoded, authorized life story persisted, providing ready cause for countless behaviors--from the boorish and the belligerent to the exemplary and enviable. What we think we know about T has stood in the way of an accurate understanding of its surprising and diverse functions and effects. Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis focus on what T does in six domains: reproduction, aggression, risk-taking, power, sports, and parenting. At once arresting and deeply informed, Testosterone allows us to see the real T for the first time.--$cProvided by publisher.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: T talk -- Multiple Ts -- Ovulation -- Violence -- Power -- Risk-taking -- Parenting -- Athleticism -- Conclusion: The social molecule.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aTestosterone.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aTestosterone$xPublic opinion.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMasculinity in popular culture.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aKarkazis, Katrina Alicia,$d1970-$eauthor.