Archive for 'biological'
Happy Belated V-Day: Biological Anthropology of the Penis
According to Pulitzer-Prize winning feminist, biologist and journalist Natalie Angier, biological anthropology started out as an attempt to make a ‘science’ out of objectifying women (mainly by conflating culturally determined elements of attractiveness with the work of evolution). Such research incites dispute because it supports oppressive cultural standards of beauty with pseudoscience, and thus presents [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2008 under New York, Research, University, adaptation, albany, anthropology, arms race, artificial vagina, beauty, behavior, bias, biological, biology, cheating, chimpanzees, competition, coronal ridge, cultural, dildo, egg, evolution, evolutionary, fertilization, gordon g. gallup, head, homemade, hypothesis, intrauterine, men, menstrual cycle, natural selection, objectification, oppression, orgasm, penis, psuedoscience, psychologist, reproduction, science, scientific, sex, shaft, sloppy seconds, sperm, spouse, standard of beauty, study, vaginal.
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Depression, Oppression, Gender Socialization, Other Pressing Things
It has come to my attention that about twice as many women are depressed as men. So let’s read about it. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Marwan M. Kazimi on the link between gender and depression (or you can read the whole essay). Personality attributes of girls and boys have been linked to [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Research, Western, achievement, adolescent, anxiety, biological, child, children, cultural lens, dependence, depression, eating disorder, emotionality, fear, gender, gender differences, gender socialization, helplessness, hormone, intelligence, mental health, parental, passivity, peer, personality, psychology, rejection, risk, self-esteem, sex difference, sexual abuse, social, social stigma, societal factors, stereotype, stereotypes, symptom, women, women's studies.
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