Gender and the science of difference [electronic resource] : cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine / edited by Jill A. Fisher.
Series: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environmentPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: vii, 249 p. : illISBN:- 9780813550466 (hardcover alk. paper)
- 0813550467 (hardcover alk. paper)
- 9780813550473 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 0813550475 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 9780813550794 (e-book)
- 612.6 22
- QP81.5 .G46 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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