Episode 36: Doing Gender and Sex, in the Sciences and the Humanities. - a podcast by The Theory Doctors

This is Episode 36 of the State of the Theory Podcast.

Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably.

In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call.

In this episode, we welcome friend of the pod, psychologist Dr Kate Cross to talk about gender and sex, and the differences in which the sciences and humanities approach sex differences and gendered identities. We explore the distinctions between gender and sex, and what the way this distinction is conceptualized by the various disciplines tell us about knowledge production in general.

Our theme music is "The Face of God" by The Agrarians (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agrarians/The_Jovial_Shepherd/The_Face_of_God)

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