<i>Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women</i>

Bleier, Ruth; Engle, Irene M.

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“…This view persists despite the lack of empirical support for it (Voda & George, 1986). Bleier (1984) and McCrae (1983) argue that cultural prejudices founded in the belief that women are handicapped by the menstrual cycle and therefore inferior to men, have often been disguised as scientific facts. McCrae states the health care system legitimates sexism, by depicting women's capacities as dependent on their reproductive functions.…”

Section: In Search Of a Common Understanding Of Menopausementioning

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Self-care activities of low-income women in midlife

Gregory¹

2000

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Section: In Search Of a Common Understanding Of Menopausementioning

confidence: 99%

Self-care activities of low-income women in midlife

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2000

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Section: Mapping the Cultural Imaginary Of Alzheimer's Diseasementioning

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“…Our approach, which attends to the signifying differences of social power relations, is radically distinct from mainstream medical discourses, the latter of which tend to configure Alzheimer"s as a democratic affliction, a disease that affects all men and women equally. These kinds of appeals to the "neutrality" of scientific and medical discourse have attracted much feminist criticism undergirded by the contention that power-saturated understandings of gender and other intersecting social categories are inextricable from scientific language; arguably, they also play out in the results of clinical practice (Bleier, 1984;Jordanova, 1989; Haraway, 1991;Keller, 1992;Oudshoorn, 1994;Klinge, 1997;Meinert, 2001; Smelik & Lykke, 2008).Feminists have, for almost four decennia, critiqued the complicity of scientific and rationalist discourse in the production and reiteration of "the body" as the effeminate half of different permutations of mind/body dualism. Moreover, they have called critical attention to the inscription of the female body as a wild, undisciplined avatar of "nature", an icon of irrationality and exotic sensuality (Davis 1997).…”

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PharmAD-ventures: A Feminist Analysis of the Pharmacological Imaginary of Alzheimer’s Disease

Åsberg

Lum

2009

Body & Society

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Abstract:Alzheimer"s disease (AD) may be situated within a cultural landscape produced, in part, by demographics and the marketing strategies of an aggressive biopharmaceutical industry. The simultaneously corporeal and visual domain of advertisements for anti-AD drugs generates dynamic images of gender and embodiment, and it also lends itself to feminist interventions engaging with the images and ideas circulating around aging, medicine, and the body. In this article, we investigate advertisements targeting medical practitioners treating patients with AD. Working within a methodological framework we identify as "feminist visual studies of technoscience", we want to propel the discussion in the direction of a broader corpus of medical media.Through this limited exercise, we hope to make a scholarly contribution to the feminist community by critiquing some of the images emerging within popular/scientific media with regard to Alzheimer"s, a disease collectively imagined within an aging Western population. PharmAD-ventures: A feminist analysis of the pharmacological imaginary of Alzheimer's diseaseIn this article, we will investigate the visual dimensions of the commercial biomedical culture of Alzheimer"s disease (AD).1 The latter is a fatal and incurable disease, and it is diagnosed in more women than men. It has also become an urgent pharmacological concern amidst a Western population contoured by an aging baby-boomer generation (Field and Brackin, 2002). We have gathered our objects of study, a series of advertisements for anti-AD pharmaceutical products, from within various mainstream medical journals spanning the years 1998-2004, including Neurology, The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. The aforementioned are peerreviewed and highly influential medical research journals that disseminate cutting-edge research to a worldwide community of clinical practitioners caring for older adults, or working within the wider field of 2 2 neurological medicine. All three journals, which were accessed in a library in a county hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as within two European university hospital libraries, one in the Netherlands and one in Sweden, aim to positively reinforce the standards by which neurological medicine is practiced.The widespread visibility of both age-related dementia, and the promise of the "miracle" cure for such among networks of scientists and medical practitioners alike interfacing with Alzheimer"s, is evident in the reappearance of the advertisements within multiple issues of the above journals. The global reach of such AD-discourse is unmistakable, as is its recent cultural urgency. Paralleling an increase in the diagnosis of AD over the last decade, as well as a rising prescription rate for anti-AD drugs, fascination surrounding the disease has also been translated into the wider layers of popular culture in the form of dozens of internationally acclaimed movies.2 Further, AD-discourse clearly intersects with o...

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“…Most basic is the scope of science as constitutive for how we understand the body and its functions (e.g. Birke, 1999;Bleier, 1984;Martin, 1987Martin, , 1995Oudshoorn, 1994;Schiebinger, 2000). More specifically, feminist researchers have pointed out how ART and new visualization techniques have given an impetus to rethink our imaginations of bodies and body parts.…”

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Gender and Bioethics Intertwined

Spilker

Lie

2007

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the debate sets established perceptions of gender in motion. In Norway, gender equality is a valid and important premise within the general political debate. It is, however, contested as a valid argument in the context of egg donation, which therefore becomes a field of negotiations about the limits of equal opportunities. The article analyses the egg donation debate as a process of cultural co-production and asks how the Norwegian emphasis on gender equality influences the debate on egg donation and, vice versa, how debates of assisted reproductive technology (ART) reopen debates on gender in relation to reproduction and parenthood

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Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women

Cited by 190 publications

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Self-care activities of low-income women in midlife

Self-care activities of low-income women in midlife

PharmAD-ventures: A Feminist Analysis of the Pharmacological Imaginary of Alzheimer’s Disease

Gender and Bioethics Intertwined

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