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).

Bookforum Omnivore - Why Sex Matters

An is an interesting collection of links from Bookforum - why sex matters. Interesting articles on transgender and intersexuality.

Why sex matters

Apr 16 2012 

9:00AM

• Adam Rosen (Pratt): Retrieving the Power of the Question: Aristotle's Inquiries Concerning Sexual Difference. 
• Elaine Craig (Dalhousie): Troubling Sex: Towards a Theory of Sexual Integrity. 
• Julie A. Greenberg (Thomas Jefferson): Intersexuality and the Law: Why Sex Matters. 
• From Gender Forum, a special issue on sex(uality), gender and pornography, including Stefan Offermann (Cologne): Dildos and Cyborgs: Feminist Body Politics and Porn from the 1970s to Posthumanism; Johanna Schorn (Cologne): Subverting Pornormativity: Feminist and Queer Interventions; and Samuel Horn (Colgne): Fragments of Fear and Power: On the Pornographic Construction of Masculinity. 
• From the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, a special issue on Rae Langton’s Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification. 
• A review of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon. 
• A review of Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History by Kim Phillips and Barry Reay. 
• An interview with Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality (and more and more and more).