The Science of Race, Sex, and Gender

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• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1993. The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough . The Sciences , March–April 1993: 20–24. DOI: 10.1002/j.2326-1951.1993.tb03081.x ↗
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• Valentine, Catherine G., Mary Nell Trautner, and Joan Z. Spade. 2008. The Kaleidoscope of Gender . “Introduction.” Sage. ISBN: 9781506389097. [ Preview on Google Books .] ↗
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• Hubbard, Ruth. 1982. “Have Only Men Evolved?” In Biological Woman–the Convenient Myth: A Collection of Feminist Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography , ed. Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, and Barbara Fried. Schenkman Books, 17–42. ISBN: 9780870737022.
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• Roberts, Dorothy E. 2011. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century . “Introduction.” The New Press. ISBN: 9781595588340. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. 1994. “Racial Formation.” In Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s , 2nd edition. Routledge, 53–76. ISBN: 9780415520317. [ Preview on Google Books .] ↗
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• Smedley, Audrey. 1999. "‘Race’ and the Construction of Human Identity ." American Anthropologist 100(3): 690–702. ↗
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• Weinstein, Chanda Prescod. 2016. “ Intersectionality as a Blueprint for Postcolonial Scientific Community Building .” Medium . January 24, 2016. ↗
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• Davis, K., 2008. “Intersectionality as Buzzword: A Sociology of Science Perspective on What Makes a Feminist Theory Successful .” Feminist Theory 9(1): 67–85. DOI: 10.1177/14647001080863. ↗
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• Marks, Jonathan. 2011. “Just How Different Is Different? (On Race).” In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology . Oxford University Press, 236–255. ISBN: 9780190490997. ↗
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• Fried, Barbara. 1982. “ Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Boys: The Language of Sex and Gender .” Lexicographica 36. 2020. DOI: 10.1515/lex-2020-0011. ↗
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• Herzig, Rebecca M. 2001. “ What about “Biology?”: Building Sciences into Introductory Women’s Studies Curricula ." In Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation , ed. Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel. Routledge, 183–191. ISBN: 9780203614266. [ Preview with Google Books. ] ↗
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• Richardson, Sarah S. 2008. “ When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics .” In Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering , ed. Londa Schiebinger. Stanford University Press, 22–42. ISBN: 9780804758154. ↗
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• Müller-Wille, Staffan. 2007. “ Figures of Inheritance, 1650–1850 .” In Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 , ed. Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. MIT Press, 177–204. ISBN: 9780262134767. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Mazzolini, Renato G. 2007. “ Las Castas: Interracial Crossing and Social Structure, 1770-1835 .” In Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 , ed. Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. MIT Press, 349–374. ISBN: 9780262134767. [ Preview with Google Books. ] ↗
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• Gould, Stephen J. 1996 (1981.) The Mismeasure of Man . Norton. Excerpts. ISBN: 9780393340402. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Proctor, Robert. 1990. “Destruction of ‘Lives Not Worth Living.’” In Racial Hygiene . Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674745780.
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• Duster, Troy. 2003. Backdoor to Eugenics . Routledge. Chapters 1 & 3. ISBN: 9780415946742. ↗
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• Stepan, Nancy Leys. 1991. “Eugenics in Latin America: Its Origins and Institutional Ecology, Racial Poisons & The Politics of Heredity in Latin America in the 1920s.” In The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America . Cornell University Press, 35–101. ISBN: 9780801497957.
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• UNESCO. 1950. Statement on Race . ↗
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• Film: The Lynchburg Story . 1993. ↗
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• Wailoo, Keith. 2001. “ Stigma, Race, and Disease in 20 th Century America: A Historical Overview .” The Lancet 367(9509): 531–533. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68186-5. ↗
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• Kreiger, Nancy. 2000. “ Refiguring “Race”: Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations. ” International Journal of Health Services 30(1): 211–216. DOI: 10.2190/672J-1K6QT-9N7U. ↗
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• M’Charek, Amade. 2013. “ Beyond Fact or Fiction: On the Materiality of Race in Practice .” Cultural Anthropology 28(3): 420–442. DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12012. ↗
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• Film: Race: The Power of an Illusion: The House We Live In (Part III) . ↗
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• Haney Lopez, Ian. 1996. “ Ozawa and Thind .” In White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race . New York University Press. ISBN: 9780814736944. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 2000. “The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid.” In Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences . MIT Press, 60–64, 195–225. ISBN: 9780262269070. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Laqueur, Thomas. 1992. “Destiny is Anatomy”. In Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud . Harvard University Press, 25–62. ISBN: 9780674543553.
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• Haraway, Donna. 1989. “Apes in Eden, Apes in Space.” In Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science . Routledge, 133–156. ISBN 9780415902946. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1995. “ Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of ‘Hottentot’ Women in Europe, 1815–1817 .” In Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture, ed. J. Terry and J. Urla. Indiana University Press. ISBN: 9780253209757. ↗
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• Kapsalis, Terri. 1997. “Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of Reproduction.” In Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum . Duke, 31–59. ISBN: 9780822319214. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Schiebinger, Londa. 1991. “Chapter 7: More Than Skin Deep”, and “Chapter 8: The Triumph of Complementarity.” In The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard University Press, 160–213. ISBN: 9780674576254.
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• Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science (MIT). 1999. “ A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT .” ↗
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• Urry, Megan. 2008. “Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy.” In Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering , ed. Londa Schiebinger. Stanford, 150–164. ISBN: 9781503626997. ↗
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• Sur, Abha. 2011. “Dispersed Radiance: Women Scientists in Raman’s Laboratory.” In Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India . Navayana Publishing, 179–219. ISBN: 9788189059323. [ View on WorldCat .] ↗
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• Fouché, Rayvon. 2003. “Introduction,” “Inventing the Myth of Racial Equality,” and “Liars and Thieves: Granville T. Woods and the Process of Invention.” In Black Inventors in the Age of Segregatio n . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1–81. ISBN: 9780801882708. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Lee, Felicia R. 2007. “Reclaiming a Black Research Scientist’s Forgotten Legacy.” New York Times , February 6, 2007.
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• Malcolm, Shirley. 1993. “Increasing the Participation of Black Women in Science and Technology.” In The “Racial” Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future , ed. Sandra Harding. Indiana University Press, 249–253. ISBN: 9780253208101. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Masco, Joseph. 2002. “ Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos .” Public Culture 14(3):441–467. DOI: 10.1215/08992363-14-3-441. ↗
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• Kumar, Amitava. 2001. “Temporary Access: The Indian H-1B Worker in the United States”. In Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life , ed. Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu with Alicia Headlam Hines. New York University Press, 76–87. [ Preview with Google Books .] ISBN: 9780814736043. ↗
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• Almeling, Rene. 2011. “Introduction,” “Characterizing the Material,” and “Producing Eggs and Sperm.” In Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm . University of California Press, 1–51, 87–109. ISBN: 9780520270961. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Moore, Lisa Jean. 2007. “In the Beginning, There Was Sperm.” In Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid . New York University Press, 7–15. ISBN: 9780814795620. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Roy, Modhumita, and Mary Thompson. 2019. “Introduction.” In The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism ed. Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson. Columbus: OSU, 1–24. ISBN: 9780814255582. ↗
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• George Chauncy, Jr. 1989. “From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualizations of Female Deviance.” In Passion and Power: Sexuality in History , ed. K. Peiss, C. Simon, and R. Padgug. ISBN: 9780877226376. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Kessler, Suzanne. 1990. “ The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants ,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16: 3–26. ↗
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• Chase, Cheryl. 1998. “ Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism .” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4(2): 189–212. DOI: 10.1215/10642684-4-2-189. ↗
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• Film: Icarus Films. One in 2000 . 2006. ↗
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• Nelson, Alondra. 2011. “Serving the People, Body and Soul.” In Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination . University of Minnesota Press. 1–22. ISBN: 9780816676484. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Montoya, Michael. 2007. “ Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race, and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research .” Cultural Anthropology 22(1): 94–128. ↗
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• Kahn, Jonathan. 2006. “ Patenting Race .” Nature Biotechnology 24(11): 1349. ↗
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• Fujimura, Joan H., and Ramya Rajagopalan. 2011. “ Different Differences: The Use of ‘Genetic Ancestry’ versus Race in Biomedical Human Genetic Research .” Social Studies of Science 41: 5–30. DOI: 10.1177/0306312710379170. ↗
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• TallBear, Kimberly. 2003. “ DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe .” Wicazo Sa Review 18(1): 81–107 ↗
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• Sur, Abha, and Samir Sur. 2008. “In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Genes, Caste, Race, and Identity Politics.” In Tactical Biopolitics , ed. Kavita Phillips and Beatriz da Costa. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262514910. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Film: African American Lives . “ Episode 4: Beyond the Middle Passage .” ↗
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• Thompson, Charis. 2001. “Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic.” In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies , ed. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon. Duke University Press, 175–202. ISBN: 9780822383222. [ Preview with Google Books.] ↗
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• Bharadwaj, Aditya. 2012. “The Other Mother: Supplementary Wombs and the Surrogate State in India.” In Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters , ed. Michi Knecht, Maren Klotz, and Stefan Beck. Campus Verlag. 139–160. ISBN: 9783593391007. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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• Franklin, Sarah. 2007. “Sex.” In Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy . Duke University Press, 19–45. ISBN: 9780822389651. [ Preview with Google Books .] ↗
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