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- Title
Gender Identity, Brain and Body.
- Authors
HAKER, HILLE
- Abstract
Hardly any field of science is regarded as having so much objectivity as brain research. If brain research can demonstrate on a neurological level that there is a gender difference corresponding to traditional manhood and womanhood, then this is of central relevance to theology. Critical analysis of scientific studies, however, shows that the interpretation of neurological findings is steered more by social assumptions than empirical data. This article points out how 'sex', even in science, is by no means 'found', but in fact 'constructed', without the need to deny biological facticity. The only thing is that this takes place not along the line of sexual difference, but characterises the whole bandwidth between the idealised poles of manhood and womanhood. The right course for theology is to make an effort to understand the scientific research in order to place its own judgments on a surer footing.
- Subjects
GENDER identity; GENDER identity in science; THEOLOGY -- Social aspects; RELIGION
- Publication
Concilium (00105236), 2015, Issue 4, p72
- ISSN
0010-5236
- Publication type
Article