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Title: Gauging Gender - Sex, Gender, and the Science/Humanities
Post by: Shana A on October 30, 2011, 07:34:35 AM
Post by: Shana A on October 30, 2011, 07:34:35 AM
October 30, 2011
Gauging Gender
Sex, Gender, and the Science/Humanities Gap 1
By Stephen T. Asma
http://chronicle.com/article/Gauging-Gender/129538/ (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.
Gauging Gender
Sex, Gender, and the Science/Humanities Gap 1
By Stephen T. Asma
http://chronicle.com/article/Gauging-Gender/129538/ (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.