Not Your Grandma's Genetics: Some Theoretical Notes

Autor/in	Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Titel	Not Your Grandma's Genetics: Some Theoretical Notes
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36 (2012) 4, S.411-418 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1177/0361684312462016
Schlagwörter	Genetics; Best Practices; Feminism; Psychologists; Researchers; Criticism; Biology; Gender Differences; Scientific Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humangenetik; Feminismus; Psychologist; Psychologe; Psychologin; Researcher; Forscher; Kritik; Biologie; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	The author's goal in this comment is not only to build on the Salk and Hyde (2012) exhortation but also to shape it toward certain kinds of developmental/genetic theory and away from others. She has several priorities: (a) to emphasize best practices in empirically defensible, nonreductive biology, (b) to provide feminist (and other) biologists with ways of understanding organisms and behavior in a social and environmental context, and thus (c) to guide both biological and psychological researchers toward planning more informative empirical studies. Feminist psychologists Rachel Salk and Janet Hyde call on gender researchers to think about genetic contributions to behavior. They want gender researchers to consider, in teaching and in research, a new view of genes as active collaborators with the environment in the production of behavior. To this end, they provide a kind of primer to contemporary genetics, which has, indeed, changed a great deal since a series of feminist critiques with the rubric "Genes and Gender" appeared starting in the late 1970s. (Contains 1 table and 7 figures.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10