How Annual Reviews Are Essential to Gender Studies

In her 1995 review, titled “Hormones, Sex, and Gender,” Carol Worthman discusses the prevalent issues in anthropological debates over how and to what extent biology informs sex and gender differences. As a professor of anthropology at Emory University, Worthman reviews both old and then-new literature from a biological anthropologist’s perspective (594), drawing upon over two hundred scholarly sources in total. She aims to guide the discussion among both biological and cultural anthropologists toward a more productive and informed discourse by analyzing how different groups define the…