11. The Proportions of Fat in Genetics of Obesity Research

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. 1. Gendering Science: Contextualizing Historical and Contemporary Pursuits of Difference 1
5. PART ONE. Investigating Difference
6. 2. Sex Differences Are Not Hardwired 27
7. 3. Looking for Difference? Methodology Is in the Eye of the Beholder 43
8. 4. Evaluating Threat, Solving Mazes, and Having the Blues: Gender Differences in Brain-Imaging Studies 67
9. PART TWO. Animal Obsessions
10. 5. Telling the Rat What to Do: Laboratory Animals, Science, and Gender 91
11. 6. “Why Do Voles Fall in Love?” Sexual Dimorphism in Monogamy Gene Research 108
12. 7. What Made Those Penguins Gay? Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Zoo 126
13. PART THREE. Categorizing Bodies
14. 8. Intersex Treatment and the Promise of Trauma 147
15. 9. The Western “Lesbian” Agenda and the Appropriation of Non-Western Transmasculine People 164
16. PART FOUR. Medical Interventions
17. 10. Facial Feminization and the Theory of Facial Sex Difference: The Medical Transformation of Elective Intervention to Necessary Repair 189
18. 11. The Proportions of Fat in Genetics of Obesity Research 205
19. 12. Making Male Sexuality: Hybrid Medical Knowledge and Erectile Dysfunction in Mexico 224
20. CONTRIBUTORS 239
21. INDEX 243