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Giving A Sense Of Achievement: Changing Gender And Racial Roles In Wartime Charleston: 1942-1945, Fritz Hamer Nov 2011

Giving A Sense Of Achievement: Changing Gender And Racial Roles In Wartime Charleston: 1942-1945, Fritz Hamer

Fritz Hamer

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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 …