Fisher, Jill A. (Author)
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.
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Deslauriers, Marguerite;
(2008-9)
Sexual Difference in Aristotle's Politics and His Biology
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Thesis
Jeffrey W. Lockhart;
(2022)
Establishing Sex: The Scientific Quest to Support a Controversial Binary
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Book
Fine, Cordelia;
(2010)
Delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference
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Peng Dai;
Cody Tyler Williams;
Allison Michelle Witucki;
David Wÿss Rudge;
(2021)
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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Book
Jennifer S. Singh;
(2015)
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
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Thesis
Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao;
(2012)
Why Sex Mattered: Science and Visions of Transformation in Modern China
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Article
Schuller, Kyla;
(2012)
Taxonomies of Feeling: The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science
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Thesis
Stein, Melissa Norelle;
(2008)
Embodying Race: Gender, Sex, and the Sciences of Difference, 1830--1934
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Sengoopta, Chandak;
(2000)
Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna
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Tatjana Buklijas;
(2020)
Publicity, politics, and professoriate in fin-de-siècle Vienna: The misconduct of the embryologist Samuel Leopold Schenk
(/isis/citation/CBB014181121/)
Essay Review
Bunzl, Matti;
(2002)
Sexual Modernity as Subject and Object
(/isis/citation/CBB001566252/)
Book
Philip E. Muehlenbeck;
(2017)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB513085345/)
Article
Wang, Hsiu-Yun;
(September 2017)
A Quarter Century of Encounters with Evelyn Fox Keller
(/isis/citation/CBB197712806/)
Article
Madeleine Pape;
(June 2021)
Co-production, multiplied: Enactments of sex as a biological variable in US biomedicine
(/isis/citation/CBB034212602/)
Book
Lynn Hankinson Nelson;
(2017)
Biology and Feminism: A Philosophical Introduction
(/isis/citation/CBB488560225/)
Book
Kline, Wendy;
(2001)
Building A Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
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Smith, Michael B.;
(2001)
“Silence, Miss Carson!” Science, gender, and the reception of Silent Spring
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Chapter
Eileen Janes Yeo;
(2013)
Central Not Peripheral: Social Science, Class, and Gender, 1830–1930
(/isis/citation/CBB402803048/)
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Jenna Tonn;
(2018)
Laboratory of Domesticity: Gender, Race, and Science at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, 1903–30
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Muka, Samantha K.;
(2014)
Portrait of an Outsider: Class, Gender, and the Scientific Career of Ida M. Mellen
(/isis/citation/CBB001214543/)
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