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Testosterone - An Unauthorized Biography (Hardcover)
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Testosterone - An Unauthorized Biography (Hardcover)
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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 not just
about one particular hormone, but about the way the scientific
process is embedded in social context." -Robert M. Sapolsky, author
of Behave Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for
everything from stock market crashes to the overrepresentation of
men in prisons. That's a lot to pin on a simple molecule. But your
testosterone level doesn't actually predict your competitive drive,
appetite for risk, sex drive, strength, or athletic prowess. It
isn't the biological essence of manliness-in fact, it isn't even a
male sex hormone. So what is it, and how did we come to endow it
with such superhuman powers? This unauthorized biography pries the
much-maligned T free from over a century of misconceptions. T's
story begins long before the hormone was even isolated, when
scientists first went looking for the chemical essence of
masculinity. Over time, this molecule provided a handy rationale
for countless behaviors-from the boorish to the enviable. Today, as
competitive athletes turn to testosterone for competitive
advantage, and we continue to debate what it means to be a man or
woman, it is back in the news again. What we think we know about T
has stood in the way of an accurate understanding of its surprising
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 lets us see the real T for the first
time.
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