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Gender and the science of difference : cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine

Title

Gender and the science of difference : cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine / edited by Jill A. Fisher.

Format

Book

Published

Description

vii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other contributors

Fisher, Jill A., 1976-

Variant title

Gender & the science of difference

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Gendering science : contextualizing historical and contemporary pursuits of difference / Jill A. Fisher
Sex differences are not hardwired / Lesley J. Rogers
Looking for difference? Methodology is in the eye of the beholder / Bonnie B. Spanier and Jessica D. Horowitz
Evaluating threat, solving mazes, and having the blues : gender differences in brain-imaging studies / Claudia Wassmann
Telling the rat what to do : laboratory animals, science, and gender / Lydna Birke
"Why do voles fall in love?" sexual dimorphism in monogamy gene research / Angela Willey and Sara Giordano
What made those penguins gay? Gender and sexuality politics in the zoo / K. Smilla Ebeling and Bonnie B. Spanier
Intersex treatment and promise of trauma / Iain Morland
The western "lesbian" agenda and appropriation of non-western transmasculin people / Sel J. Hwahng
Facial feminzation and the theory of facial sex differences : the medical transformation of elective intervention to necessary repair / Heather Laine Talley
The proportions of fat in genetics of obesity research / Shirlene Badger
Making male sexuality : hybrid medical knowledge and erectile dysfunction in Mexico / Emily Wentzell.

Subject headings

Sex differences. Sex differences--Political aspects. Sex (Biology)--Social aspects. Human biology--Philosophy.

Kinsey subjects

Gender role identification. Determinants of sex differentiation.

ISBN

9780813550466