Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-010
S. Deplus
{"title":"The Sex of Knowledge: Sexuated and Gendered Anatomy","authors":"S. Deplus","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-010","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution explores the question whether the human body, such as it is currently taught in anatomy in France, should be regarded as sexuated and gendered. The author works as an ophthalmologist and teaches general anatomy at the University Paris Diderot – Paris VII, and in that capacity her purview is the science of the body, from tip to toe, a constellation which in this form is not very common in France. The article’s point of departure is an US-American study by Lawrence and Bendixen (1992) ‘His and Hers: Male and Female Anatomy in Anatomy Texts for U.S. Medical Students, 1890-1989’. This study primarily serves to raise the question which body is seen as reference for anatomy as taught in France today. The current teaching situation is discussed in the second part of the contribution.2","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134293957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-011
H. Voß
{"title":"Determining Sex/Gender: Genes and DNA Precisely Do Not Predict the Development of a Genital Tract...","authors":"H. Voß","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-011","url":null,"abstract":"Biological research of the past decades that attempted to attribute the determination of sex to only a few genes has failed. Neither the gene SRY (sex determining region on the Y chromosome) nor additively added genes led to a reasonably consistent and convincing understanding of sex determination. With complexity already being discussed for quite some time in the natural sciences and biology under the terms ‘system organization theories’ and ‘system biology’, this way of thinking is now gradually being embraced in biological sex and gender theories: it concerns the investigation of developments and processes whose outcome is not already presumed by researchers.","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"10 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114104893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-007
É. Fassin
{"title":"The Art of not Being Categorized Quite So (Much)","authors":"É. Fassin","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-007","url":null,"abstract":"In France the movement against Marriage for All has accused the so-called ‘theory of gender’ of being an unscientific ideology. This paper addresses three implicit premises of this polemic: 1. The opposition of science and politics is a misreading of Weber: the social sciences cannot be ‘neutralized’; they must be considered as ‘situated knowledge’ (Haraway, Harding). 2. The epistemological question (from Durkheim to Bourdieu): The categories that organize knowledge are based on a social process of categorization – both with respect to sexuality (Kinsey) and sex (Fausto-Sterling). 3. Sex is socially constructed: This is not about identifying a ‘true sex’ (Foucault), but about representation, which is always conventional. We inevitably categorize; critique, however, is the art of not being so categorized (Foucault): neither so much nor quite so.","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127454443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-021
Isabelle Collet
{"title":"Transmitting Gender Competence in Biology Teacher Training","authors":"Isabelle Collet","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-021","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1981 the Swiss Conference of the Cantonal Education Directors (EDK) of the Swiss Cantons recommends a joint education for girls and boys. This aim is supported by the federal law of 24 March 1995 on the equality of women and men which includes a demand for targeted policy measures for the equal treatment of girls and boys in education. In 2005, integration of gender aspects in education became a clear political goal in the Canton of Geneva, after the governing council and the Director of Education had declared it a priority.2 The Geneva university teachers took the municipal authorities at their word and demanded, together with feminist associations and the Swiss equal opportunities office, that obligatory gender-relevant courses be introduced in the training of all teachers when the new secondary school teacher training was incorporated in tertiary education in 2007. In this way the subject of gender was integrated in the training of primary and second-","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115613394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-008
J. Woweries
{"title":"Who has a Disorder? Who gets to Decide?","authors":"J. Woweries","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the definitional power of medicine in the assignment of intersex persons, followed by a brief historical overview of the importance of notions of social norms particularly with reference to dichotomically organized normative concepts of body and mind. The right of self-determination and other human rights occupy a special place in the discussion about ascriptions of disorders, since it is precisely those incapable of giving their informed consent that are particularly affected by the application of medical measures. The critical discussion of certain hitherto standard medical practices not only sheds light on the implications for the individuals concerned and their personal environment, but also for medical practice. Looking ahead, the author also discusses the significance of legal solutions for individual and social practices.","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122596302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-016
Simon Zobel
{"title":"Intersex/Gender-Related Constitutiveness: Specific Realities, Specific Norms","authors":"Simon Zobel","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-016","url":null,"abstract":"Life loves diversity and is geared towards variation. Variability and complex systemic strategies are a fundamental prerequisite of life. Already in terms of physical biology all human beings can be regarded as variable or polyvalent in terms of sex/gender. The elements constituting sex occur equally in all bodies. Variable factors on the genetic, cellular as well as organic levels and different hormonal proportions in the life cycle of all human beings condition a more or less developed sex-related specialization. Some are more polyvalent than the average. These are today generally referred to as intersexual. Following traditional scientific standards and categories on the basis of classical dichotomies, disorder is assigned to these large minorities, thus making the physical image treatable. Physical and psychological integrity is violated. Initially excluded from normality, these people are later included again via special arrangements, thus keeping existing scientific and cultural suppositions reproducible.","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132190392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normed ChildrenPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839430200-015
P. Sutter
{"title":"Genetic or Biological Trans Parenthood: Dream or Reality?","authors":"P. Sutter","doi":"10.14361/9783839430200-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430200-015","url":null,"abstract":"All scientific studies on the subject of trans parenthood show that transsexualism of one of the parents has no negative effect on the development of the child. There are numerous arguments in favour of trans persons also having the right to reproduce. Many of the arguments against reproduction of trans persons can be adduced to society’s fear of transsexualism, to heteronormativity and ignorance of current technological possibilities. The demand, still common in many countries, that trans persons be sterilized as a precondition for a change in the civil register is discriminating and eugenic. Current medical practice limits itself to freezing sperm cells of trans women before beginning a hormone therapy for later use in the context of a homosexual relationship, as well as the insemination of donor semen in partners of trans men. The technology for using frozen ovarian tissue in trans men is not yet available. Here the only option is hormonal stimulation and vitrification of egg cells.","PeriodicalId":430889,"journal":{"name":"Normed Children","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121982185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}