THE EGG AND THE SPERM - HOW SCIENCE HAS CONSTRUCTED A ROMANCE BASED ON STEREOTYPICAL MALE-FEMALE ROLES
THE EGG AND THE SPERM - HOW SCIENCE HAS CONSTRUCTED A ROMANCE BASED ON STEREOTYPICAL MALE-FEMALE ROLES
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MARTIN, E
作为一名人类学家，我对文化影响生物科学家如何描述他们对自然世界的发现的可能性很感兴趣。如果是这样的话，我们在高中生物课上学到的就不仅仅是自然世界了；我们将学习文化信仰和习俗，就好像它们是自然的一部分。在我的研究过程中，我意识到，在生殖生物学的流行和科学描述中，卵子和精子的形象依赖于我们对男性和女性的文化定义的核心刻板印象。这种刻板印象不仅暗示了这篇文章的部分内容是1987年康奈尔大学贝克尔讲座的内容。我很感谢在这个场合我收到的许多建议和想法。我要感谢Richard Cone， Kevin Whaley, Sharon Stephens, Barbara Duden, Susanne Kuechler， Lorna Rhodes和Scott Gilbert对我的论点和数据的帮助。匿名标志审稿人的评论以及艾米·盖奇高超的编辑技巧使文章得到了加强和澄清。
As an anthropologist, I am intrigued by the possibility that culture shapes how biological scientists describe what they discover about the natural world. If this were so, we would be learning about more than the natural world in high school biology class; we would be learning about cultural beliefs and practices as if they were part of nature. In the course of my research I realized that the picture of egg and sperm drawn in popular as well as scientific accounts of reproductive biology relies on stereotypes central to our cultural definitions of male and female. The stereotypes imply not only thatPortions of this article were presented as the 1987 Becker Lecture, Cornell University. I am grateful for the many suggestions and ideas I received on this occasion. For especially pertinent help with my arguments and data I thank Richard Cone, Kevin Whaley, Sharon Stephens, Barbara Duden, Susanne Kuechler, Lorna Rhodes, and Scott Gilbert. The article was strengthened and clarified by the comments of the anonymous Signs reviewers as well as the superb editorial skills of Amy Gage.