Gender and the science of difference
Subtitle: cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine
By: edited by Jill A. Fisher
Series: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment; Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780813550466; 9780813550473
Subjects: Political aspects; Human biology; Social aspects; Philosophy; Sex Factors; Cultural Characteristics; Sex (Biology); Politics; Sex differences; Gender Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gendering science : contextualizing historical and contemporary pursuits of difference / Jill A. Fisher; title: Sex differences are not hardwired / Lesley J. Rogers; title: Looking for difference? Methodology is in the eye of the beholder / Bonnie B. Spanier and Jessica D. Horowitz; title: Evaluating threat, solving mazes, and having the blues : gender differences in brain-imaging studies / Claudia Wassmann; title: Telling the rat what to do : laboratory animals, science, and gender / Lynda Birke; title: Why do voles fall in love? Sexual dimorphism in monogamy gene research / Angela Willey and Sara Giordano; title: What made those penguins gay? Gender and sexuality politics in the zoo / K. Smilla Ebeling and Bonnie B. Spanier; title: Intersex treatment and the promise of trauma / Iain Morland; title: The western "lesbian" agenda and the appropriation of non-western transmasculine people / Sel J. Hwahng; title: Facial feminization and the theory of facial sex difference : the medical transformation of elective intervention to necessary repair / Heather Laine Talley; title: The proportions of fat in genetics of obesity research / Shirlene Badger; title: Making male sexuality : hybrid medical knowledge and erectile dysfunction in Mexico / Emily Wentzell.