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... marine organisms have evolved to embody hyperbolic geometry; it affords them a maximum surface area with which to filter feed in a minimal volume. This essay asks, What is the place of biology—and specifically of biological theory—in the HCCR? After describing the Reef’s origins in geometrical modeling...

... innovations? The author turns to Gayle Rubin's two canonical essays (“The Traffic in Women” and “Thinking Sex”) to explore one route by which biology became the underbelly of feminist and queer theory: how it became both a disreputable mode of explanation and a site of political vulnerability. Of particular...

...Anne Fausto-Sterling This dialogue between Anne Fausto-Sterling and Priscille Touraille revisits some of the essential issues in the confrontation between the different disciplinary epistemologies of gender studies and biology. Basing their conversation on the work developed by Fausto-Sterling...

...Joseph Darda The dominance of some Black athletes in some sports after civil rights led scientists and journalists to search for explanations in athletes’ culture, geography, psychology, and, increasingly, in their genes—all contributing, whether they landed on culture or biology, to a resurgent...

... of the candidates—most notably Senators Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts—the subjects of unprecedented debates about identity, biology, and culture. These debates, which raise questions not only about who gets to be black or brown or red but also who gets to be American, duCille...

...-Controlled,Double-Blind Study.” American Journal of Psychiatry 140.5 ( 1983 ): 554 -58. Robinson, Paul, and Letizia Grossi. “Gag Reflex in Bulimia Nervosa.” The Lancet 328 ( 1986 ): 221 . Rudin, Norah. Dictionary of Modern Biology . Hauppauge: Baron's, 1997 . Russell, Gerald. “Bulimia...

... .” Unpublished manuscript. 1997 . De Cecco John P. and Parker David Allen , eds. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual Preference . Binghamton : Harrington Park P , 1995 . Fletcher John . “ Poetry, Gender and Primal Fantasy .” Burgin , Donald...

...ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. anne fausto-sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies...

...' in Twentieth-Century America.” The Journal of American History 83.1 ( 1996 ): 44 -69. Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis . Cambridge: Harvard up, 1988 . Provine, William, and Ernst Mayr, eds. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology...

... Are these claims of Butler’s claims about sex itself? They do amount to a claim that sex is how biology appears to us, or is the signifi- cance that biology takes on for us, in light of gender. But does this entail that really...

... contribution is seen as a passive material substrate into which form can be imbued. As the historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller points out in Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology , this hylomorphic understanding of reproduction where form and matter occupy separate...

... between theories of culture and its construction of gender on the one hand, and developments in the biological sciences on the other. Some cultural studies work on gender defines its critical agenda precisely by way of the exclusion of science, and of biology, in particular. As a result, gender studies...

..., tropes of homosexual sterility mask a fear of what I will call homosexual reproduction—that is, a propensity to multiply not biologi- cally but semiotically in an unsentimental, insistent process of replication, repetition...

... of Canada provided generous funding for the research and writing of this essay. © 2012 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2012 Works Cited A Abbott . “ Plant Biology: Growth Industry .” Nature 468 ( 2010 ): 886 – 88 . Agosta...

..., the major themes of organismic biology since the late eighteenth century. From his commanding position in the root of a lymph node, G.O.D. 6 GERSHON'S IMMUNOLOGICAL ORCHESTRA The immunological orchestra in 1968. The focus was on cell cooperation. The players are B cells, T cells, and macrophages conducted...

... suppressed—by colonialism, critics have taken for granted the femininity of the central character Ahmed. Relying upon a notion of biology as naturally determinative of gender, such readings designate the colonial period as the unnatural...

... . “ Orgasm, Generation and the Politics of Reproductive Biology .” The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century . Ed. Gallagher Catherine and Laqueur Thomas . Berkeley : California UP , 1987 . 1 - 41 . Makward Christine...

... milieu to whose laws it constitutes an exception. Therein lies, in our opinion, the philosophically inexcusable fault. […] One cannot defend the originality of the biological phenomenon, and consequently the originality of biology, by demarcating within the physicochemical territory […]. In the end...

... Tribune 24 Mar. 1987 : B7 . Gordon Mary . “ ‘Baby M’ — New Questions about Biology and Destiny .” Ms . June 1987 : 25 - 26 . Hanley Robert . “ Baby M's Mother Wins Broad Visiting Rights .” New York Times 7 Apr. 1988 : B5 . Hanley Robert . “ Characterization...

...-bottom” of the psychic field, but he does so on the grounds of “the biological factor”: it is in the domain of biology that, as I quoted at the start of this essay, “the repudiation of femininity must surely be a biological fact, part of the great riddle of sex” (252). It has been objected in response...