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Models and Reality: When Science Tackles Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sharon L. Crasnow
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Abstract

Through a discussion of the way science has been used to address intersexuality, I explore an idea about how to understand science as objective and yet influenced by social, historical, and cultural factors. I propose that the Semantic View of theories provides a means of understanding how science describes reality, and I look at the way science has been used to distinguish the sexes to provide an illustration.

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Symposium
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Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001 , pp. 138 - 148
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Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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