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Acknowledgments
Queer Feminist Science Studies: An Introduction

Part One | Histories of Difference
1. Sexing the X: How the X Became the “Female Chromosome” / Sarah S. Richardson
2. Pelvic Politics: Sexual Dimorphism and Racial Difference / Sally Markowitz
3. The Sexual Reproduction of “Race”: Bisexuality, History, and Racialization / Merl Storr
4. From Masturbator to Homosexual: The Construction of the Sex Pervert / Ladelle McWhorter
5. “An Unnamed Blank that Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender / David A. Rubin

Part Two | Contemporary Archives and Case Studies
1. Black Anality / Jennifer C. Nash
2. At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X / Alison Kafer
3. “BIID”? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home” / Nikki Sullivan
4. The Allure of Artifice: Deploying a Filipina Avatar in the Digital Porno-Tropics / Mitali Thakor
5. Gone, Missing: Queering and Racializing Absence in Trans & Intersex Archives / Hilary Malatino

Part Three | Disruptive Practices
1. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity / Michelle Murphy
2. Pussy Ballistics and the Queer Appeal of Peristalsis, or Belly Dancing with Margaret Cho / Rachel Lee
3. Embodiments of Safety / Kane Race
4. Consent, Capacity, and the Non-Narrative / Amber Musser
5. Brains, Sex, and Queers 2090: An Ideal Experiment / Isabelle Dussauge

Part Four | Beyond the Human
1. “Why Do Voles Fall in Love?”: Sexual Dimorphism in Monogamy Gene Research / Angela Willey and Sara Giordano
2. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby
3. “The Bio-Technological Impact” and “Abstract Sex” / Luciana Parisi
4. Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections / Mel Y. Chen
5. Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons / Aimee Bahng

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2017
      ISBN13: 9780295742588, 978-0295742588
      ISBN10: 0295742585
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      Gender studies: women and girls Sex and sexuality, social aspects Science & Nature History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents


      Acknowledgments
      Queer Feminist Science Studies: An Introduction

      Part One | Histories of Difference
      1. Sexing the X: How the X Became the “Female Chromosome” / Sarah S. Richardson
      2. Pelvic Politics: Sexual Dimorphism and Racial Difference / Sally Markowitz
      3. The Sexual Reproduction of “Race”: Bisexuality, History, and Racialization / Merl Storr
      4. From Masturbator to Homosexual: The Construction of the Sex Pervert / Ladelle McWhorter
      5. “An Unnamed Blank that Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender / David A. Rubin

      Part Two | Contemporary Archives and Case Studies
      1. Black Anality / Jennifer C. Nash
      2. At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X / Alison Kafer
      3. “BIID”? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home” / Nikki Sullivan
      4. The Allure of Artifice: Deploying a Filipina Avatar in the Digital Porno-Tropics / Mitali Thakor
      5. Gone, Missing: Queering and Racializing Absence in Trans & Intersex Archives / Hilary Malatino

      Part Three | Disruptive Practices
      1. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity / Michelle Murphy
      2. Pussy Ballistics and the Queer Appeal of Peristalsis, or Belly Dancing with Margaret Cho / Rachel Lee
      3. Embodiments of Safety / Kane Race
      4. Consent, Capacity, and the Non-Narrative / Amber Musser
      5. Brains, Sex, and Queers 2090: An Ideal Experiment / Isabelle Dussauge

      Part Four | Beyond the Human
      1. “Why Do Voles Fall in Love?”: Sexual Dimorphism in Monogamy Gene Research / Angela Willey and Sara Giordano
      2. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby
      3. “The Bio-Technological Impact” and “Abstract Sex” / Luciana Parisi
      4. Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections / Mel Y. Chen
      5. Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons / Aimee Bahng

      Index

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