Of “Amazons” and “Chaste Virgins”

Authors

  • Katrin Nikoleyczik Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft, Kompetenzforum Genderforschung in Informatik und Naturwissenschaften

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/324

Keywords:

Macht, Schwangerschaft /Reproduktion, Sexualität, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

In her book Die Fortpflanzung der Geschlechterverhältnisse (The Propagation of Gender Relations), Smilla Ebeling traces the metaphoric field of parthenogenesis ("virgin birth”) in evolution biology. Through the analysis of biology and popular scientific texts, she points out that dual-gendered stereotypes are also found where they are thematically not expected: in texts that devote themselves to the propagation of a purely female species.

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Published

2005-03-03

Issue

No. 15 (2005): Offenes Heft

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2005 Katrin Nikoleyczik

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