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Psychology, Evolution and the Traumatised Child: Exploring the Neurophysiology of Early Sexual Development
In: Australian feminist studies, Volume 30, Issue 86, p. 377-385
ISSN: 1465-3303
Evolutionary psychology, feminism and early sexual development
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 14, Issue 3, p. 295-304
ISSN: 1741-2773
Early puberty, 'sexualization' and feminism
In: European journal of women's studies, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 138-154
ISSN: 1461-7420
Early onset puberty is increasingly prevalent among girls globally according to many scientists and clinicians. In the medical and scientific literature early sexual development is described as a problem for girls and as a frightening prospect for parents. News media and popular environmentalist accounts amplify these figurations, raising powerful concerns about the sexual predation of early developing girls by men and boys and the loss of childhood innocence. In this article the author frames one feminist approach to early puberty, arguing that feminist theorists should both take scientific work around population changes in sexual development seriously and use their critical skills to unpick and challenge the discourses constituting early development as a matter of concern. The author suggests that contemporary academic and policy debates on the 'sexualization' of girls have important resonance for critical explorations of early puberty. These debates currently pay little attention to the physiological aspects of sexual development and could be enriched by so doing. As in the case of 'sexualization', issues of class, racialization and agency are central to understanding and challenging normative concerns about girls' early sexual development.
17. Gatekeeping discourse in employment interviews
In: Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions
Book Review: On Having An Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
In: Feminist review, Volume 93, Issue 1, p. 139-141
ISSN: 1466-4380
DOING FEMINIST SEX RESEARCH AT THE NATIONAL CENTRE IN HIV SOCIAL RESEARCH
In: Australian feminist studies, Volume 23, Issue 58, p. 525-529
ISSN: 1465-3303
RELATING SIMPLY?: Feminist Encounters with Technoscience in the Early Twenty-first Century1
In: Australian feminist studies, Volume 23, Issue 55, p. 75-86
ISSN: 1465-3303
Book Review: The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Volume 39, Issue 2, p. 393-394
ISSN: 1469-8684
Sex, Race and 'Unnatural' Difference: Tracking the Chiastic Logic of Menopause-Related Discourses
In: European journal of women's studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 27-44
ISSN: 1461-7420
Theorizing interconnections of sexual and racial differences remains a core problematic within feminist theory. In this article the author argues that these connections might in some cases usefully be understood as constituting a chiasmas. The term 'chiasmas' is taken from MichËle Le Doeuff's analysis of the writings of 18th-century physiologist Pierre Roussel. Le Doeuff argues that Roussel's understanding of sexual difference is chiastic. An examination of contemporary medical and scientific discourses around the menopause and its treatment through hormone replacement therapy (HRT) takes the argument onto new ground. The author argues here that menopause-related discourses rely on a chiastic logic that connects sexual difference with racial differences. Identification of such logics may prove useful to feminist analyses of specific entanglements of the logics of sexual and racial differences, in contemporary and historical instances.
Book Reviews
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 371-372
ISSN: 1741-2773
Contraception across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 105, Issue 3, p. 670-671
ISSN: 1548-1433
Contraception across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints. Andrew Russell. Elisa J. Sobo. and Mary S. Thompson. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000. 224 pp.
`A matter of embodied fact': Sex hormones and the history of bodies
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 7-26
ISSN: 1741-2773
Sex hormones today are seen as central to the production of biological sexual difference. This article examines the development of this scientific `fact', and asks how hormones came to be in this position. The article does not involve original historical research, however. Instead it uses existing histories of hormonal sexual difference to develop a theoretical argument about body histories. How can the history of scientific views of bodies be written and understood? What can these histories tell us about the relation between scientific representations of bodies and the materiality of bodies? Combining and critiquing arguments from feminist histories of science, Bruno Latour's actor network theory, Michel Serres's theory of folded time, and Donna Haraway's notion of situated knowledges, this article argues for the centrality of embodiment and location to useful body histories.
Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and Sex
In: NWSA journal: a publication of the National Women's Studies Association, Volume 12, Issue 3, p. 1-20
ISSN: 1527-1889
Thinking Biological Materialities
In: Australian feminist studies, Volume 14, Issue 29, p. 131-139
ISSN: 1465-3303