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Gauging Gender: A Metaphysics, Stephen Asma Nov 2011

Gauging Gender: A Metaphysics, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

In this article the author discusses sex and gender in human beings and examines how the study of science, particularly biology, has influenced the study of these subjects in higher education. It traces the evolution of sex and gender studies in academe, comments on the failure of many humanities scholars to dismiss biology in studying human behavior, and explores ways in which psychoanalysis, social constructionism, and metaphysics have informed the debate over the differences between sex and gender. Other topics include research conducted by Anne Fausto-Sterling regarding intersexed people, scientific tests focusing on sexual preference in rats, and thoughts by …


Curricular Reform And Inquiry Teaching In Biology: Where Are Our Efforts Most Fruitfully Invested, Briana Timmerman, Denise Strickland, Susan Carstensen Apr 2011

Curricular Reform And Inquiry Teaching In Biology: Where Are Our Efforts Most Fruitfully Invested, Briana Timmerman, Denise Strickland, Susan Carstensen

Briana Eileen Timmerman

No abstract provided.


The Interplay Of Host Morphology And Symbiont Microhabitat In Coral Aggregations, B. Helmuth, Briana Timmerman, K. Sebens Apr 2011

The Interplay Of Host Morphology And Symbiont Microhabitat In Coral Aggregations, B. Helmuth, Briana Timmerman, K. Sebens

Briana Eileen Timmerman

No abstract provided.


Total Cadmium, Copper And Zinc In Two Dreissenid Mussels, Dreissena Polymorpha And Dreissena Bugensis, At The Outflow Of Lake Ontario, Carolyn Johns, Briana Timmerman Apr 2011

Total Cadmium, Copper And Zinc In Two Dreissenid Mussels, Dreissena Polymorpha And Dreissena Bugensis, At The Outflow Of Lake Ontario, Carolyn Johns, Briana Timmerman

Briana Eileen Timmerman

No abstract provided.