1st Edition
Genetic Essentialism How Science Education Shapes Perceptions of Race and Gender
1. Genetic essentialism: Definitions, impacts, history 2. Essentialism in science textbooks: Race and human variation 3. Human origins, genetic variation, genotype-phenotype relationships 4. Essentialism in science textbooks: Sex and gender 5. Sexes, genders, and sources of difference 6. In search of ultimate causes: Paleonarratives about sex and gender 7. How did we get here? Inequality and essentialism.
Biography
Elizabeth D. Whitaker is a biocultural anthropologist specializing in human health, social history, and the history of scientific ideas. She lectures at the University of Bologna and has also taught at several universities in the United States. Among her academic honors are three Fulbright awards for research and teaching in Italy. Her publications include four other Routledge titles: The trouble with human nature: Health, conflict, and difference in biocultural perspective; Health and healing in comparative perspective; A Macat analysis of Marcel Mauss’s The gift: The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies; and, A Macat analysis of Betty Friedan’s The feminine mystique.
