Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

by Frans de Waal

Book Overview

In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324007109
• ISBN13: 9781324007104
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"