Sex Contextualism
- Date: Dec 12, 2023
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Sarah Richardson
- Harvard University
- Location: MPI BI Martinsried
- Room: Online
- Host: Jayne Lambert and Sabine Spehn
- Contact: gleichstellungsbeauftragte@bi.mpg.de
"Sex contextualism" offers an alternative to binary sex essentialist
approaches to the study of sex-related variables in biological science.
Specifically, sex contextualism recognizes the pluralism and
context-specificity of operationalizations of ‘sex’ across
experimental laboratory research. In light of recent policy mandates to
consider sex a biological variable, sex contextualism offers constructive
guidance to biomedical re searchers for attending to sex-related biological variation. This
talk will give concrete examples of how “sex” in biomedicine is context-dependent construct, including in the
design, interpretation, and communication of laboratory-based experimental
research and outline some of the constructive work that embracing sex
contextualism both within and beyond the laboratory might advance.