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Thursday, 17 June 2021

Sex/Gender Studies in Biology: The Critical View of Sex/Gender In the Life Sciences

Date and time

Thursday, 17 June 2021, 2 p.m.

Venue

Online

Organiser

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg

Language

Please contact organiser for further details

Contact

Dr. Sarah Czerney; sarah.czerney(at)lin-magdeburg.de

Further information

Lecture webpage

Gender studies is primarily characterised by a plethora of studies in the humanities and social sciences on Gender relations. Less well known is the critical sex/gender research within biology that has been taking place since the 1970s, which has been researching the biological foundations of sex/gender, sexuality and sex/gender difference. The lecture presents this biological research on gender with examples and explains the theoretical self-understanding of this research.

The talk is apart of the series “Gender and Neuroscience”, which addresses questions like these: Are the gender binary and stereotypical differences between men and women really so clear? What can research about gender differences say and what can’t it? What other perspectives on gender can we find in the natural sciences?

Decorative photo of model of human brain
Photo: jesse orrico

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