Kristina Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life, ser. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), XII + 360 pp.

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-488
Author(s):  
Emanuela Zanda
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oxford University Press

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex Differences, but Were Afraid to Be Perceived as Politically Incorrect: Brain Gender, by M. Hines. 2004. New York: Oxford University Press. 307 pp., $49.50.

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1026-1027
Author(s):  
Jeannette McGlone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oxford University Press

Hines finds it impossible to make distinctions between the terms “sex” and “gender,” hence their refreshing, non-political interchangeability in her new book. After examining hormonal and brain-based data, Hines concludes that science cannot yet inform us which differences are determined biologically, socially, and/or both.

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