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“Commentary and Criticism” section<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></I></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Scientific/ Biological
Determinism:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Media Models of Genetics
and Gender <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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</SPAN>Why is it that scientific discourse of male/female difference has become
so prevalent in media accounts of gendered behaviour, or of sexual difference in
transnational terms?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>How does this scientific/evolutionist discourse produce ‘authentic’
knowledge about women, women’s bodies, and women’s behaviour that exonerate
historical and political causes of gender difference?
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>In the west, quality
newspapers are eager to report on the latest scientific research, while
television documentaries call on celebrity scientists Steven Pinker or Richard
Dawkins to give legitimacy to their explanatory commentaries. Popular
entertainment in the form of magazine quizzes, reality television, talk shows
and lifestyle make-overs return again and again to the same message, that the
reason men and women behave as they do is ‘hard wired’ into their genes through
evolutionary selection for reproductive fitness. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Meanwhile, news coverage of
the ‘third world’ woman reveals her body as the subject of uncontrollable
fertility, malnutrition, and disease. If scientific ideologies have been an
integral part of population control campaigns in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns
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w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, for
example, the same science diagnoses media images of the bodies of women of
African nations as victims of malnutrition and sexually transmitted diseases.
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>None of this is new but a
return to these issues is timely given the role that scientific and evolutionary
explanations now play as a counter-discourse to religious fundamentalism.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>We invite you to submit a
short essay of up to 2,000 words to the “Commentary and Criticism” section of
the journal <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Feminist Media Studies</I>
that address such questions as:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>How might feminist
interventions disrupt the gendered assumptions on which these scientific
discourses are founded? Are there feminist alternatives in circulation and how
might these be promoted? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>What strategic uses are
there for scientific accounts of gender in the context of resurgent religious
fundamentalisms? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>What features of
evolutionary discourse make it attractive to media professionals? Is it the
weight of popular belief with which these theories conform? Is it the utility of
a binary model that allows for relative simplicity in the telling? Is there an
economic incentive to promote sexual differentiation in a media market
structured by gender?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>What relevance do
evolutionary explanations have in a global context? How widespread is the
circulation and acceptance of these Western scientific discourses of gender? How
do they translate into diverse cultural and political
contexts?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal align=left>Dr. Melissa Gregg</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal align=left>Postdoctoral Research Fellow</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal align=left>Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal align=left>and</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal align=left>Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies </DIV>
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