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Lisa Wade - The New Science of Sex Difference
- The New Science of Sex Difference Lisa Wade, PhD
- Genes• Hormones • Brains
- Genes• Hormones • Brains Culture • Interaction • Structure
- Genes
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes • Sex-linked • Sex-limited • Sex-influenced
- Genes Blueprint?
- Genes “…the organism has choices… If a problem is encountered, the thing has to figure out a solution. Sometimes the solution is fantastic, other times it is less so… If we didn’t have extensive overlap and redundancy in our genome, we wouldn’t be here at all.” - geneticist Mario Capecchi
- Genes • 5% = the story • 95% = the storyteller
- Genes • 5% = the story • 95% = the storyteller “What is written in our genes… is a very open-ended story.” - sociomedicist Rebecca Jordan-Young
- Genes • 5% = the story • 95% = the storyteller “The sheer possibility of outcomes is “transcalculational, a mathematical term for mind boggling.” - geneticist Richard Strohman
- Genes • 5% = the story • 95% = the storyteller Epigenetic tags: chemical changes to DNA that tell genes what to do.
- Genes • 5% = the story • 95% = the storyteller
- Genes GENES ARE AMAZING!
- “…any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. You cannot expect to explain so wise an old bird in a few simple words.” - biologist Max Delbrück Genes
- Hormones 1) Messengers in our chemical communication system.
- Hormones Male vs. Female Hormones
- Hormones • Organizational effects • Activational effects
- Hormones • Organizational effects • Activational effects
- Hormones • Organizational effects • Activational effects
- Hormones • Organizational effects • Activational effects
- Hormones 1) Messengers in our chemical communication system. 2) Mechanisms of social interaction.
- Hormones 1) Messengers in our chemical communication system. 2) Mechanisms of social interaction.
- Hormones 1) Messengers in our chemical communication system. 2) Mechanisms of social interaction.
- Brains
- Brains • Small average sex differences in: – brain anatomy –composition – function – size – tissue ratios
- Brains Brain lateralization
- Brains • Brain plasticity: our brain’s ability to respond to the environment.
- Brains • Functional plasticity: producing the same outcome in different ways.
- Brains Brains might produce male- and female-typical outcomes, but they may “just as well do the exact opposite, that is, they may prevent sex differences in overt functions and behaviors by compensating for sex differences in physiology.” - neuroendocrinologist Geert De Vries
- Brains The difference between people w/ and with/out training > than that between men + women.
- Brains The Flynn Effect
- Brains “The brain is basically a social organ.” - sociologist David Franks
- TAKE HOME POINTS
- TAKE HOME POINTS • We now know how social difference and inequality become embodied.
- TAKE HOME POINTS • We now know how social difference and inequality become embodied. “Biology is, literally, the flesh and blood of society.” - Me
- TAKE HOME POINTS • We now know how social difference and inequality become embodied. • So we can make powerful arguments against the naturalization of biological states.
- TAKE HOME POINTS • We now know how social difference and inequality become embodied. • So we can make powerful arguments against the naturalization of biological states. • We can better understand how difference and inequality emerge, persist, and are changed.
- TAKE HOME POINTS • We now know how social difference and inequality become embodied. • So we can make powerful arguments against the naturalization of biological states. • We can better understand how difference and inequality emerge, persist, and are changed. • Helps explain why sex differences research has been so… anticlimatic.
- TAKE HOME POINTS • Now we can use biological research to add urgency to feminist efforts…
- TAKE HOME POINTS • Now we can use biological research to add urgency to feminist efforts… • … by showing just how deep oppression goes and how very unjust it is.
- Lisa Wade, PhD • lisa-wade.com • t:@lisawade • fb:/lisawadephd Thanks! Image credits to attackofthecute.com, theilovedogssite.com, schizophrenia.com, ileeh, zastavki.com, + freshboo.com.
