Review of: Lou-Salomé Heer: „Das wahre Geschlecht“. Der populärwissenschaftliche Geschlechterdiskurs im SPIEGEL (1947–2010). Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2012.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/1062Keywords:
Feminismus, Medien, Ökonomie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
The present discourse analytical study of popular scientific gender knowledge was without doubt overdue. In her empirical study, which is based on a Master’s thesis at the University of Zurich, Lou-Salomé Heer illustrates, using cover stories and photos of the SPIEGEL, that the medial gender discourse has been characterized by sociobiology since the 1990s. The stimulating, explorative analysis draws the attention to the ambivalent significance of media in the production and reproduction of (popular) scientific gender knowledge and provides impulses for further studies. The present analysis does, however, remain unsatisfactory methodologically, which limits the possible gain in knowledge.
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