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Health Directory - Mental Health, Alternative Medicine, Nursing
HealthYellowpage.com is a health care directory that offers various health information such as general health, beauty, dentistry, mental health, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, education, w...
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http://www.healthyellowpage.com
Australia's Hillsong Church and the "beauty gospel" for teenage girls
In Australia, a church-run program for troubled teenage girls emphasizes "natural make-up, hair care, nail care" as a way of discovering girls' "created uniqueness." Peculiar.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/hillsongs-beauty-gospel/2008/07/25/1216492732905.html?pa...
Gender Guesser
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http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html
The joy of Christian sex | The Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 2008
This article quotes a good friend of mine...
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/relationships/the-joy-of-christian-sex/2008/07/18/1216163133100.html
San Diego CityBeat - Don't marry him!
Response to http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
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http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/don_t_marry_him/6694
Marry Him!
This article offers what I think is remarkably awful advice, but it's interesting nonetheless as a kind of social commentary.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
Judith Warner: The Hillary-haters and "Sex and the City"
Judith Warner on the brutal misogyny represented in all the banter, on the one hand, about Hillary Clinton as a "castrating," bitchy female, and on the other hand, the "frothy," cheerful,...
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http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge
The language you speak affects your personality
A study of bilingual women suggests that when you switch from speaking one language to another, your personality and your perceptions change as well. I've experienced this myself switchin...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624
Anime OP X: Blue Gender
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http://www.animeopenings.com/search/label/Blue%20Gender?max-results=5
Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define - New York Times
This is truly depressing. Reminds me of Fear of Flying, except without the fun stuff and the sense of humor.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04love.html
The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day P...
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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm
Proof that men and women activate stereotypes of competence and sociability respectively
A man’s image associated with masculinity activates a mental structure of competence, whereas when we see a woman we activate the social one.
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http://www.physorg.com/news128260058.html
Boys, brains and toxic lessons - Times Online
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3234354.ece
Men or Women: Which is the more generous sex?
The female advantage in empathy and care shows up very early in life. Female infants, for example, show greater distress and concern than male infants over the plight of others: this diff...
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http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=70
Hormone levels predict attractiveness of women - New Scientist
Feminine beauty, the subject of philosophical and artistic musings for millennia, can be predicted by something as basic as hormones.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8251
Evolutionary psychology | Sex, shopping and thinking pink | Economist.com
The more feminine a brain was, regardless of the body it inhabited, the more it liked red and pink.
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http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9682588
Raw Data: Do Brothers Make You Gay? | Sex & Reproduction | DISCOVER Magazine
According to Bogaert, every older brother increases the probability that a man is homosexual by 33 percent. The average estimate of the base rate of male homosexuality is around 4 percent...
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http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/gaybrothers
He Thinks, She Thinks | Sex & the Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
Men and women, to be sure, “are more alike than they’re different, and even when there are variations, there is a significant overlap between the sexes,”
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/she-thinks
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Men in touch with feminine side
A Cambridge University study found 17% of men have "female brains", while 14% of women have a "masculine brain".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/3522920.stm
Sex Steroids and Human Behavior: Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Sex-Typical Play Behavior in Children
These findings suggest that androgen during early development influences childhood play behavior in humans at least in part by altering brain development.
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http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1007/1/272
Friends' School Achievement Influences High School Girls' Interest In Math
More than boys, girls look to their close friends when they make important decisions, such as whether to take math and what math classes to take, confirming how significant peers are duri...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207085618.htm
BBC NEWS | Health | Finger length 'key to aggression'
Men with the shortest index fingers scored higher on measures of physical aggression than those with longer index fingers, but the study's findings did not apply to women.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4314209.stm
XY: men, masculinities, and gender politics
XY is a website focused on men, masculinities, and gender politics. XY is a space for the exploration of issues of gender and sexuality, the daily issues of men's and women's lives, and p...
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http://www.xyonline.net
Men overcompensate when masculinity threatened
"If you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to support the Iraq War more and would be more willing to purchase an SUV over ano...
2005, article, gender, homophobia, masculinity, psychology, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/soc.gender.dea.html
When Women Rule
. The broader conundrum is that for women, but not for men, there is a tradeoff in qualities associated with top leadership. A woman can be perceived as competent or as likable, but not ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10kristof.html?ex=1360386000&en=6742716922585108&e...
UCSF Today - Neuropsychiatrist Explains Why Female Brains Are Different
Brizendine hopes that the book will help women understand why they are feeling a certain way during specific times in their lives, so they can make more cognizant choices and have more co...
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http://pubaffairs.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200704061.html
Study Finds Male And Female Brains Respond Differently To Visual Stimuli
The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images,
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316072953.htm
Femme Mentale
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women's and men's brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/06/MNG3HKAMVO1.DTL
Size Does Matter : DivineCaroline
Dome fascinating facts about the neurochemical make-up of women and how it impacts our behavior.
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http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22079/42873
ABC News: Excerpt: 'The Female Brain'
The Birth of the Female Brain, a chapter from the book
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=2274147&page=1
Pheromone attracts straight women and gay men - being-human - 09 May 2005 - New Scientist
Smelling a male pheromone prompts the same brain activity in homosexual men as it does in heterosexual women, a new study has found.
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn7358.html
Clue to sexual attraction found in lesbian brain - sex - 08 May 2006 - New Scientist
The homosexual women showed similar brain activity to heterosexual men when they inhaled certain chemicals, which may be pheromones, the researchers say.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9125-clue-to-sexual-attraction-found-in-lesbian-brain....
Sex Differences Extend Into The Brain
As researchers continue to explain how sex influences brain function, we will see more diagnostic tools and therapies that successfully account for the biological differences between wome...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080229171609.htm
BBC NEWS | UK | Girls 'more skilled on computers'
Girls are more confident than boys about using a computer, a survey of more than 1,000 children suggests.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7270307.stm
Web Teacher › SXSWi: Go for IT! Attracting Girls to Technology
When a panel is given identical resumes that have the names changed to reflect different genders, a male name is chosen as the best person by both men and women who are doing the judging....
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http://www.webteacher.ws/2008/03/08/sxswi-go-for-it-attracting-girls-to-technology
Edge: THE ASSORTATIVE MATING THEORY: A Talk with Simon Baron-Cohen
My thesis with regard to sex differences is quite moderate, in that I do not discount environmental factors; I'm just saying, don't forget about biology. To me that sounds very moderate.
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/baron-cohen05/baron-cohen05_index.html
Gene Expression: Goody Summers Put a Hex on Me
Prenatal testosterone is becoming the HBD cornerstone, generating behavioral research linking doses (and timing of doses) to autism, sex differences, homosexuality, and even race differen...
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http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2005/08/goody-summers-put-hex-on-me.php
Prenatal Testosterone in Mind - The MIT Press
The amniotic fluid provides a window into the child's past -- a chemical record of that child's time in the womb -- that allows informed prediction about the child's future brain, mind, a...
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10834
They just can't help it | Research | EducationGuardian.co.uk
How much eye contact children make is in part determined by a biological factor: prenatal testosterone. This has been demonstrated by measuring this hormone in amniotic fluid.
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,938022,00.html
EQ SQ theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon Baron-Cohen [...] hypothesizes that "the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQ_SQ_theory
Department of Experimental Psychology: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
Major programs: (1) cognitive neuroscience into the causes of autism spectrum conditions (ASCs); (2) diagnosis, screening and epidemiology of ASCs; and (3) clinical/intervention research ...
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http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/pages/staffweb/baron
The Male Condition - New York Times
girls tend to talk earlier than boys, and in the second year of life their vocabularies grow at a faster rate. One-year-old girls also make more eye contact than boys of their age.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08baron-cohen.html?ex=1281153600&en=497fba7d39bb53...
Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks
Future psychiatric research and clinical treatments for men and women should involve gender specific focuses to ensure that the sexes are studied separately, which he believes has not bee...
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http://www.physorg.com/news8634.html
Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Brains of People who Have Schizophrenia Show Sex Pattern Reversal, Compared With General Population
Research has shown that there are a few minor differences between the brains of men and women. New research by neuroscientist Adrianna Mendrek indicates a reversal of these differences in...
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http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/006156.html
Neurosexism, size dimorphism and not-so-’hard-wiring’ « Neuroanthropology
I’d have more sympathy for the gender essentialists if they weren’t choosing such lousy traits to argue with, pointing to abilities that we KNOW in our own lives are subject to modifi...
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http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/neurosexism-size-dimorphism-and-not-so-har...
Will Working Mothers’ Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of Neurosexism
Scientific accuracy and commonsense are often casualties in the ugly rush to cloak old-fashioned sexism in the respectable and authoritative language of neuroscience.
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/ch8k8085pv61v361/fulltext.html
People Accept Anger In Men, But Women Who Lose Their Temper Are Seen As Less Competent, Study Shows
Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions: Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402152707.htm
Transgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says)
Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child ...
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http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52664