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I have been researching and teaching sexual difference theory for several years. As a sociologist, I have been trained to analyze sexual difference as the product of social construction; and as a feminist, I have learned to look for the ways in which gender and power work conter- minously to produce political, economic, social, and scientific understandings of physical (material) differences between females and males as natural, immutable and informing.
How should explanations be possible when we turn everything into an image, our image!
(Nietzsche 1974: 172)
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Margulis, L. and Sagan, D. (1995) What is Life? Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Schiebinger, L. (1999) Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Hird, M.J. (2004). Introduction. In: Sex, Gender, and Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510715_1
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