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“A Critical Moment”: Sex/Gender and Brain Science Conference @ UCLA, 10/23–24
Here is a conference announcement I should have shared with you months ago: the Foundation for Psychocultural Research at the University of Californa in Los Angeles (FPR-UCLA) is hosting a conference...
View ArticleReview Paper: The Neuroscience of Pedophilia
The sad days are over! I just submitted the final paper for the last psychology class towards my SCAN certificate. The seminar, instructed by Teresa Pegors, is titled “Neuroscience of Human Motivation...
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Book Summaries: The First 3^3 Items from My Brain List
Today, I’m posting my first summarizing essay for my “History of the Skull, Mind, and Brain Sciences” list for you. I’m reading the items from this list with John Tresch, who is my main advisor. Be...
View ArticleMore Book Summaries: Sex/Gender and Race in Genetics + Animals in the Lab and...
I just finished another set of readings for my orals list on “History of American Post-War Science and Feminism” with Susan Lindee. Read my summaries below and make sure to check out Etienne Benson’s...
View ArticleBook Summaries: Cold War Social Science, Gender Roles, and Reproduction
I have done many more readings. The following essay from my Cold War science and feminism list with Susan Lindee is already 1.5 months old and I can read faster and type more efficiently by now. As a...
View ArticleMore Book Summaries on European History—and How These Relate to My Proposed...
The book summaries below are from my European History list with Heidi Voskuhl, a subsection titled “Bodies and Sexuality.” Since reading towards oral exams is not (only) an initiation rite, but also...
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Book Summaries Cont’d: 20th-Century Sexuality and Sexology
The items below do a fantastic job in connecting the “private” with the “public” spheres—and show that they’re not actually separate spheres whatsoever. Many of these works, I already utilized during a...
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Final Summaries on 20th-Century Science: Feminism and Science
The below essay was at the same time my favorite to write and my last one for my list with Susan Lindee. Concluding my readings in Cold-War Science and Feminism also brings me one step closer to my...
View Article“I’m Not a Bigot, It’s Just Science”
You have probably already heard of Grace Pokela’s pointed facebook post that dismantles the “science” of transphobia. But just in case you haven’t—and chances are you haven’t, because I myself only...
View ArticleMust Read: Article in The CUT on Science and Sexual Stereotyping
When I was still sleeping this morning, Melinda Wenner Moyer published a spot-on article in The CUT, “These Ideas About Sexual Attraction May Be Based on Shoddy Science.” Moyer traced the controversy...
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