Bookforum Omnivore - The Question of Sexual Difference

From Bookforum's Omnivore a collection of links on men and women and the differences between them - some psychology, some neuroscience, some neurobiology and perception, and some cultural shift.

The question of sexual difference

Oct 12 2012
5:00PM

• Julie A. Nelson (UMass): Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? 
• From Biology of Sex Differences, Christopher P Morgan and Tracy L Bale (UPenn): Sex Differences in microRNA Regulation of Gene Expression: No Smoke, Just MiRs; Israel Abramov, James Gordon, Olga Feldman, and Alla Chavarga (CUNY): Sex and Vision I: Spatio-temporal Resolution; and Sex and Vision II: Color Appearance of Monochromatic Lights. 
• Neurohormonal wars: Mary Stewart van Leeuwen on old questions and dubious debates in the psychology of gender. 
• New research finds men and women feel sympathy for fictional characters for different reasons. 
• The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women. 
• Men, who needs them? Women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction; men are neither.
• Sex matters: Guys recognize cars and women recognize birds best. 
• Peter Blair on the end of men: The end of women too? 
• From International Viewpoint, Josette Trat on the question of sexual difference and Jane Kelly on postmodernism and feminism. 
• Nigel Warburton interviews Paul Seabright, author of The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present (and more).