October 30, 2011
Gauging Gender
Sex, Gender, and the Science/Humanities Gap 1
By Stephen T. Asma
http://chronicle.com/article/Gauging-Gender/129538/"How many genders or sexes are there?" Jaak Panksepp asks his students.
Panksepp, who is the father of affective neuroscience and currently Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University, waits patiently for them to overcome their confusion and venture the obvious answer: "Two."
"No, there are at least four, and probably many more," he informs them. The standard setup is, of course, a male brain in a male body or a female brain in a female body, but we regularly find a brain-body mismatch; feminized brains in masculinized bodies and vice versa.
