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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This refreshing volume comes at a critical time, lending clarity and intelligence to current issues of gender and biological determinism." -- Susan Lindee * University of Pennsylvania *
"The anthology addresses how contemporary scientific and medical claims about the differences between men and women produce gendered institutions that reflect social and cultural values. An excellent volume that will interest scholars in gender studies, science studies, and the sociology of medicine. Highly recommended."
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"This refreshing volume comes at a critical time, lending clarity and intelligence to current issues of gender and biological determinism." -- Susan Lindee * University of Pennsylvania *
"The anthology addresses how contemporary scientific and medical claims about the differences between men and women produce gendered institutions that reflect social and cultural values. An excellent volume that will interest scholars in gender studies, science studies, and the sociology of medicine. Highly recommended."
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Table of ContentsGendering 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
