The Crying Book by Heather Christle

Author:Heather Christle
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781948226455
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

In his book, Frey speculates that “higher levels [of the hormone prolactin] may account in part for the fact that women shed tears more often and more readily than men.”120 I can’t help noticing that in his conceptual framework men are the default figure, to which women are compared. And he (and every other crying researcher I’ve read) treats sex as binary and absolute, sex and gender as interchangeable. I go digging and find that differences in prolactin levels emerge in puberty; people categorized by researchers as female experience an increase, those categorized as male a decline. What would happen if Frey were to flip his model, ask why males suffer from a prolactin deficit, and a corresponding inability to cry? Or better still, what if researchers were to treat sex and gender as the varied sets they are? What would the science of tears look like then?

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