These articles were all written in May of 2015 while I was in college.
Feminiscience takes concepts and information from Feminist Science Studies and makes them accessible and digestible, so you can learn about ways that you can take back and define your own body. Feminiscience is about feeling empowered to argue on behalf of your body. You know your body, you are your body. The shroud of academia sometimes convinces us that others can tell us we are wrong about ourselves. Feminist Sciences say that we actually can and should engage with scientific literature and Feminiscience is an entryway.
5 Times Biology was Absurdly Unscientific
Monkey Orgasms, Genomics, and putting the "Ass" into "Assumption"
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When when we talk about gender we're always talking about race
You'll never think of gender, or your pelvis, the same way again!
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The Real Reasons Fat People Get Flak
Is it just the fat, or is it something... bigger?
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Why the origins matter
Why should I care? What does this have to do with anything?
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How Zoombinis demonstrate that the sex binary is bogus
This 90s puzzle game will set you free form biological determinism!
Read the articleThe original site had a bunch of extra stuff that I had to write for the class I made this for. That stuff is not interesting and I'm not reposting it here.
Bibliography
Elizabeth Lloyd, Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality
Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself Chapter 9. Are Men and Women as Different as Humans and Chimpanzees?
Samuel A. Cartwright, Report on the Diseases and Physical Pculiarties of the Negro Race (1851) Serious Trigger Warning for Racism and Medical Abuse
Medical Dictionary Definitions of Race,from Hammonds and Herzig's "Nature of Difference"
Markowitz, S. (2001). Pelvic Politics: Sexual Dimorphism and Racial Difference. Signs, 26(2), 389–414. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175447
Laqueur, T. (1992). Making Sex - Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard UP.
Briggs, L. (2000). The race of hysteria : “overcivilization” and “savage” women in late nineteenth-century obstetrics and gynecology. American Quarterly (Print).
Berlant, L. (2021). Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of “Health”. In Against Health : How Health Became the New Morality (pp. 26–39). https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759639.003.0006
Kathleen LeBesco. (n.d.). 6. Fat Panic and the New Morality. In Against Health : How Health Became the New Morality (pp. 72–82). https://doi.org/10.18574/9780814759639-007
Herzig, R. M. (2015). Plucked : a history of hair removal. New York University Press.
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