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Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference(science.culture)

Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference(science.culture)

          
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An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.     The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. This transformative concept has sparked reappraisals of social expectations as well as debate over not just gender, but sex: what it is, what it means, and how we know it. Most scientific and biomedical research over the past seventy years has assumed and reinforced a binary concept of biological sex, though some scientists point out that male and female are just two outcomes in a world rich in sexual diversity.      In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings feminist thought into conversation with biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our individual sexual essences or fates. In accessible language, Prum shows that when we look closely at the science, we see that gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance through which the individual regulates and achieves its own becoming. A fertilized zygote matures into an organism with tissues and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological mechanisms, and gender and sexual behavior through a performative continuum. This complex hierarchy of self-enactment reflects the evolved agency of individual genes, molecules, cells, and tissues.   Rejecting the notion of an intractable divide between the humanities and the sciences, Prum proves that the contributions of queer and feminist theorists can help scientists understand the human body in new ways, yielding key insights into genetics, developmental biology, physiology. Sure to inspire discussion, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Prologue Taking Birds Seriously A Humanistic Turn An Ornithologist for Intersectionality   1. Performance All the Way Down Material Feminisms A Performative Continuum What Is the Role of Metaphor in Biology? What Is at Stake? The Stakes for Evolutionary Biology Mind the Gap Why Queer Biology? Where Are We Going?   2. Critical Concepts What Are Male and Female? Historical Ontology Sex Is a History Sex Difference versus Sexual Difference Sex and Race Sexual Development and Differentiation The Sexual Phenotype Sex Determination and Sex Reversal Discourse Agency Queer and Queering   3. Gender Performativity What Is Performativity? Elements of Performativity Performativity and Trans Experience Between Butler and Barad   4. The Enactment of the Biological Self Genes and Development What Is Molecular Discourse? Want to Go to the Movies on Friday? How Discourse Becomes Genetic Action within Cells The Choreography of Gene Expression The Performative Phenotypic Landscape Canonical versus Performative Pathways How Does the Body Regulate Growth over Space? What Is the Role of Physical Forces in Development? Performativity of Cellular Discourse Are Genes Causes? Agency in Developmental Biology Citationality and Homology Posthuman Power Physiology and Immunity Neurobiology and Psychology Sexual Selection What Is Not Performative in Biology? Why Performative Biology Now?   5. How Do Our Sexual Bodies Develop? The Role of Chromosomes On Gene Nomenclature How Do Gonads Differentiate? Reproductive Tract Development Genital Development Post-embryonic Sexual Development Sexual Development Summary   6. Variations in Our Sexual Development Terminology and the Framing of Embodied Sexual Variation Moving beyond Pathology Chromosomal Contributions to Differences in Sexual Development Genetic Variations in Gonad Development X Chromosome Inactivation Genital and Reproductive Tract Development Noncoding Genetic Variation How Does the Environment Affect Sexual Development? Queer Science   7. How Evolution Generates Sexual Variability The Evolution of Sex Evolutionary Variability of Sexual Development Initiation Why Sexual Differentiation Mechanisms Are Generatively Queering Sexually Disruptive Selection Evolution of the Molecular Discourse of Sexual Development Evolution of Sexual Transition Evolution Is Incompatible with Sexual Essences Norms and Innovation Placental Performativity Limits of the Binary Bottleneck   8. The Future of Performative Biology Performative Scientific Hypotheses Performativity of Illness and Disability Recalibrating Causality Biology Is Ready to Think Performatively Pluralism and the Phenotype What Is Evolutionary Biology About?   9. Performance All the Way Up Sexual Reproduction Is an Intra-action A Posthuman Genealogy of Performative Discourse Is There Gender in Nature? “What Is Sex?” Revisited Toward a Scientific/Cultural Concept of Gender/Sex Performative Perspectives on Transsexual Experience Sex and Race as Scientific Apparatuses Sex and Race Categories in Biomedical Research Post-disciplinary Material Feminisms An Intellectually Queer Space in Science   Acknowledgments Appendixes Appendix 1. Material Feminisms Appendix 2. Acquired Immunity Appendix 3. Current Models of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship Appendix 4. Modularity Appendix 5. Genetic Assimilation Appendix 6. Why Gene-Level Selection Is Insufficient Appendix 7. Internal Selection Notes Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226771755
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: science.culture
  • Sub Title: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 022677175X
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr


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