Article ID: CBB000932926

O império dos hormônios e a construção da diferença entre os sexos (2008)

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Rohden, Fabíola (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 15, suppl.
Issue: suppl.
Pages: 133-152


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Article also in English. English title: [The Reign of Hormones and the Construction of Gender Differences]. Part of a special issue: Gender, Women and Science.
Language: Portuguese

Within the context of the theoretical debate on gender and science, the article discusses the process of redefining gender and sex differences using so-called biological or natural markers. It identifies how gender differences undergo naturalization using a logic of 'substantialization or 'materialization'. This process is exemplified in how medicine views women, promoting explanatory models of economics of the female body that are at times centered around organs like the uterus and ovaries, at other times centered on the mechanics of hormones, and, most recently, focused on genetic and neurological differences. More specifically, it follows the discovery of so-called sex hormones and its relation to a dualist perspective of gender. These powerful chemical messengers helped shaped the passage from the logic of excess surrounding sex through the late nineteenth century, to the imperative of insufficiency, prevalent since the mid-twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Eder, Sandra
Karkazis, Katrina
Epstein, Randi Hutter
Rustoyburu, Cecilia
Willey, Angela
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Concepts
Science and gender
Gender identity
Sex hormones
Endocrinology
Medicine and gender
Sex differences
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Modern
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
France
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Barcelona (Spain)
Germany
China
Institutions
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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