Gender and the Science of Difference

Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine
Herausgeber: Fisher, Jill A

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780813550473
• ISBN-10: 0813550475
• Artikelnr.: 32738010

Autorenporträt

Jill A. Fisher is on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society at Vanderbilt University. She is author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

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