"Sympathetic and well-researched. . . . Lively enough to be a good introduction for the educated lay reader and documented enough for the scholar." -
Publishers Weekly "Amazing! This is the long-awaited fusion of science, criticism, and compassion that scholars of gender-and everybody else-have been waiting for.
The Riddle of Gender is meticulous, funny, brilliant, and readable. . . . Not just for those interested in the enigmas of sex and gender, but for those interested in the universal mystery of how we become ourselves." -Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of
She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders