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Swayed by the clear distinction between male and female genitalia, the question of how far these categories extend into human biology has attracted humans for centuries. This question is sometimes being framed as whether the effects of sex are restricted to the genital organs or penetrate the entire organism. Here I argue that the two questions are not equivalent and that whereas the answer to the question, how far sex penetrates the body, is – deep down to the level of every cell, the answer to the question, how far the categories, "male" and "female", do, is – probably nowhere beyond the genitals. That the two questions are often used interchangeably reflects the prevailing conceptualization of sex as a dichotomous system or process that exerts profound effects on other systems (e.g., the brain), leading to sexual dimorphism (i.e., two forms, male versus female) also of these systems. Here I discuss the question of whether the effects of sex result in dimorphic systems, focusing on the case of sex effects on the brain. I show that although there are sex/gender differences in brain and behavior, humans and human brains are comprised of highly variable 'mosaics' of features, some more prevalent in females, others more prevalent in males.

'Der vorliegende Band, hervorgegangen aus einer Tagung des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien (IZFG) an der Universität Greifswald, stellt den Zusammenhang zwischen Sex/ismus als soziale, politische und diskursive Praxis und der Verwobenheit der Medien in dieser Praxis zur Diskussion. Printmedien, (Werbe)Fotografie, Fernsehen und Film werden - an ausgewählten Formaten oder konkreten Materialien - in ihrer Vermittler- und Erzeugerrolle von Sex/ismus beschrieben. In den Blick genommen werden alltagsmediale kulturelle Rezeptionsangebote wie Soaps, Doku-Soaps, Spielfilme, Werbeserien, das Feldbusch-Schwarzer-TV-Duell in der Kerner Late-Night-Show sowie Beispiele für Ratgeberliteratur und Hochschuljournalistik. Das analytische Interesse umkreist - in unterschiedlicher Intensität - sexistische Medienpraktiken im soziologischen Verständnis des Sexismus-Begriffs, theoretische Konsequenzen aus dem performative turn für den Sexismus-Begriff und deren analytische und methodische Reichweite im Verbund mit anderen Differenzkategorien und die medientheoretische Reflexion des Geschlechterperformativs. Die Medien übergreifende Situierung und Befragung sexistischer kultureller Praxen erfordert ein kulturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtetes Fachverständnis - Vertreterinnen der beteiligten Einzeldisziplinen Rechtswissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften, Amerikanistik und Germanistik demonstrieren das für ihre eigene Disziplin und gewinnen ganz unterschiedliche Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich aktueller Sexismus-Praktiken in den Medien.' (Autorenreferat). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ulrike Lembke: Die-Frau-als-Sexualobjekt: Sexismus und Medien aus der Perspektive des juristischen Diskurses (29-54); Sigrid Nieberle: Feldbusch-Kerner-Schwarzer und die Medialität sexistischer Rede (55-72); Tanja Maier: 'Ganz normal anders': Normalisierungsstrategien in TV-Serien (73-92); Margreth Lüneborg: Reality-TV und Geschlecht - die Veralltäglichung von Fernsehen als Chance für gender diversity? (93-116); J. Seipel: Sexismus zwischen Sex und Gender: Darstellung und Bewertung von Gender-Transgressionen in The Crying Game (117-138); Angela Koch: Ir/réversible - die audiovisuelle Codierung von sexueller Gewalt im Film (139-166); Kerstin Stüssel: Weg vom Steuer! Sexismus in der Ratgeberliteratur (167-180); Monika Schneikart: 'Unter Brüdern' - Die Universität Greifswald und ihr 'Journal': Medium und Institution (181-200); Susanne Holschbach: Posieren für die Heteronormativität - aktuelle Modefotografie im Gender-Mainstream (201-214); Kerstin Knopf: Labeling Gender: HeteroSexismus und Calvin-Klein-Werbefotografie (215-240).

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- EDITORIAL -- Sex Work, Sex Workers, and Beyond -- ARTICLES -- Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Rocovery Movement Turn Radical Women into "Useless CitiZens -- Reframing "Eve" in the Aids Era: The Pursuit of Legitimacy by New Zealand Sex Workers -- Long-Term Consumption of "X-Rated" Materials and Attitudes Toward Women Among Australian Consumers of X-Rated Videos -- Sex, Beach Boys, and Female Tourists in the Caribbean -- Invisible Man: A Queer Critizue of Feminist Anti-Pornography Theory -- Theorizing Prostitutition the Qustion fo Agency -- Poly Work: Autoethnography of a Strip Club -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, by Carol Queen -- Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-Like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour and Prostitution -- Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor -- New Sexual Agendas, edited by Lynne Segal -- Three in Love, by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster and Letha Hadady -- Promiscuities: The Secret Strugglefor Womanhood, by Naomi Wolf(Random House, 1997, 286 pp.)and Last Night in Paradise: Sexand Morals at Century's End, byKatie Roiphe -- Confronting Sexual Harassment:What Schools and Colleges CanDo, by Judith B. Brandenburg -- Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop -- The First Stone: Some Questionsabout Sex and Power, by HelenGarner -- Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life -- FILM REVIEW -- In the Company of Men Behaving Badlyll -- PERSONAL PERSPECTIVELL -- Hey, I'M a Feminist! A Male Professor Weighs in with Feminist Pedagogy

Sex and sex-related conduct is rigidly circum scribed by law in the United States, and rigorous penalties are provided for deviations from the limited forms of sexual expression (or choice of sexual partners) permitted. These laws reflect a puritanical sociosexual culture, strangled in taboos, but do not accurately depict either the incidence or modes of sexual conduct. They do, however, create a body of sexual offenders (perhaps exaggerated as to numbers and certainly exaggerated as to degree of social danger) who are differentially subjected to hysterical, almost sadistically punitive sanctions by public, police, courts, and corrections authorities. Little research and experimentation is supported in this field, and less treatment is provided in the nation's penal institutions. While sex acts committed by force or threat, and sexual advances to very young children, must be restrained by penal sanctions (at least in the absence of effective therapeutic techniques), many of the sex statutes punishing consensual or autoerotic conduct, or nuisance manifestations of minor sexual pathology, might well be repealed. This would permit the development of a legal code more consistent with the changing sociosexual mores and folkways of our culture.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. A State Cannot Require Parental Consent for a Minor's Abortion -- 2. States should have the Right to Require Parental Consent Before a Minor's Abortion -- 3. Parental Consent can be Required Before a Minor's Abortion can be Performed -- 4. No Choice for Teens -- 5. Parental Consent Laws Protect the Health of Minors -- 6. Parents Fault Parental Consent Laws for Their Daughter's Death After an Unsafe Abortion -- 7. Minors have the Right to Access Contraceptives -- 8. Limiting Teens' Access to Contraception Unless They Obtain Parental Consent Puts Them at Risk -- 9. A Teen Decides to Seek Contraception Without Talking to Her Parents -- 10. Laws Targeting Men as the Perpetrators of Statutory Rape are Just -- 11. Laws Targeting Men as the Perpetrators of Statutory Rape are Unconstitutional -- 12. A Child Thirteen or Younger Cannot be Charged with Statutory Rape for Sex with Peers in Most Cases -- 13. Age of Consent Laws are Inconsistent and Rely on Outdated Stereotypes of Masculinity and Femininity -- 14. Sexting is Immoral and Criminal -- 15. What's the Matter with Teen Sexting? -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Introduction -- The sex offender "problem" and responses -- Social responses to the sex offender : a historical perspective -- Policing sexual offending -- The search for justice : the sex offender in court -- The search for justice : punishing the sex offender -- The victims of sexual offending -- Protection in the home -- Protection in the community -- Conclusions