Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/02/2014
All Day
Location
University of Pittsburgh
Category(ies)
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014
Location: University of Pittsburgh
“I Was Born a Baby: The Dynamic Development of Gender Variability”
Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita, Brown University, is a leading expert in biology and gender development that challenges entrenched scientific beliefs. Dr. Fausto-Sterling’s current research on parent-infant interactions and the embodiment of gender demonstrates how cultural difference becomes bodily difference. A frequent commentator for media outlets such as The New York Times and PBS, her ambition is to restructure dichotomous conversations–inside the academy, in public discourse, and ultimately in the framing of social policy–in order to enable an understanding of the inseparability of nature/nurture.