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Sex-Gender in Life-Science Research: Conceptual Renegotiations and an Enactivist Vision

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TitleSex-Gender in Life-Science Research: Conceptual Renegotiations and an Enactivist Vision
ContributorAlex Thinius(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH08
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractAlex Thinius, in “Sex-Gender in Life-Science Research: Conceptual Renegotiations and an Enactivist Vision,” discusses how researchers are increasingly acknowledging the urgency that the concept of “sex” be redefined. In contrast to concepts of sex-gender differences as stable and dichotomous, in current research on sex-gender, there is a growing consensus that sex is far more nuanced, variable, and interacting with gender in complex ways. The article aims to open up a research horizon for pluralist and dynamic concepts of sex by looking at a family of theories that mediate between gender theories and the life sciences, potentially integrating complex systems theory and critical phenomenology: enactivism. While endorsing the strength of this constructive integration, the author stresses that there is still great unexplored potential for reconceptualizing the sexes beyond grounding it on a sex/gender or male/female binary.
Keywords
  • sex differences
  • enactivism
  • gender medicine
  • genders as genres
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Alex Thinius

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7296-4891

Alex Thinius is a philosopher and interdisciplinary socio-cultural researcher, specializing in conceptions of sex-gender. In 2023, they are Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University, researching “The Reconceptualization of Sexual Difference.” Alex completed a PhD titled Genders as Genres at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. They have since lectured at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the departments of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Philosophy.