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

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    • Fisher, Jill A.

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

edited by Jill A. Fisher

(Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment)

Rutgers University Press, c2011

  • : hardcover

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Gender & the science of difference

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its findings about human sexuality, especially so-called normal and deviant desires and behaviors? Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. Prior scholarship has illustrated how past cultures of science were infused with patriarchal norms and values that influenced the kinds of research that was conducted and the interpretation of findings about differences between men and women. This interdisciplinary volume presents empirical inquiries into today's science, including examples of gendered scientific inquiry and medical interventions and research. It analyzes how scientific and medical knowledge produces gender norms through an emphasis on sex differences, and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and examples.

目次

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 / Lynda 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 the promise of trauma / Iain Morland The western "lesbian" agenda and the appropriation of non-western transmasculine people / Sel J. Hwahng Facial feminization and the theory of facial sex difference : 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

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