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Articles for DWF
Transexualism: the genesis of sexual identity, 1981, n. 17, pp. 65-73
Starting from the analysis of transexualism, current theories and data on sex determination are briefly reviewed, with particular emphasis on the genesis of sexual identity. Going through the different hypotheses about the role of biological factors (genetic and hormonal), educational factors (parent-child interaction), and social sexist norms and pressures, the separation is emphasised between the different approaches to the problem, the lack of a general overview on the interactive network that links the different relevant factors, the absence of a scientific research overcoming the reductive dichotomy between nature and culture and the equally reductive equivalence between culture and intrafamilal environment.
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A glance from the laboratory, 1986, n. 2, pp. 51-56
The author analyses the research activity in a scientific laboratory basing her work on concrete examples: this activity is characterised by programming, anticipating, planning with a logical and practical link that can't be broken. This kind of work requires a private life organized functionally to the research activity and creates a situation solidly structured with no space for the analysis of one's own subjectivity.
In the hypothesis - that still needs to be verified - that there is a female identity in scientific production and that it has or can develop in the future it's own role, the author offers a few hints for discussion. The first one concerns the relationship between the extreme competition that characterizes the world of scientific research and the women's attitude working in it at different levels.
The second one concerns the possibility of a specific women's mark in their scientific contributions. The author thinks that it would be more useful and meaningful for women scientists to analyze whether there is a line between the actual research production realized autonomously by women scientists and the different experiences that women have made in different fields.
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Reviews for DWF
"International Journal of Women's Studies", v. 4, 1981, n. 4:
Women and Science
rev. by Marina Frontali, 1982, n. 22, pp. 154-157