Autism and gender : from refrigerator mothers to computer geeks / Jordynn Jack.

"The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Jordynn Jack suggests the proliferating number of discussions point to autism as a rhetorical phenomenon that engenders attempts to p...

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Main Author:	Jack, Jordynn, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Autism > Sex factors. Autism in children > Etiology. Sex factors in disease. Autistic Disorder > etiology. Autistic Disorder > psychology. Gender Identity. Mother-Child Relations > psychology.