Aroused
The history of hormones and how they control just about everything. The term gender role was coined 1955 by John Money (...) Before this, the concept had been known simply as sex, a vague term that sometimes meant the act of intercourse, sometimes meant chromosomes, and sometimes meant feminine or masculine. I found the book Aroused fascinating. We take endocrinology and hormones as something set in stone for ages, but actually they are very recent concepts. It is written in a way that everyone can understand and medical jargon is not used without its proper explanation. It was a marvelous trip through our own body, our emotions and feelings. Examples of real people are used and even the circus freak is seen in a different light as someone with a medical condition that needs treatment and not laugh and disdain. The part that most stuck with me was the sentence above. So many transphobic people walking around proclaiming it only exists two genders as if it is a God give...