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Sex and science

The University of Cambridge centre for gender studies, in association with the Guardian and kindly supported by Cambridge University Press, is organising a series of debates on gender and radical bio-medical advances. Book tickets to the events here. This series of articles on Comment is free will accompany the debates.

21 July 2017

  • Illustration by Lo Cole

    My life in sex: the 75-year-old in an open marriage

    Recently I have been exploring the attractions of submission. I know a girl who is very good at ‘being mean’ to me

7 December 2010

  • Transitioning gender: the challenges of radical technologies

    Sex and science: What do biomedical advances on transsexuality, transgenderism and intersexuality mean for traditional concepts of gender?

29 November 2010

  • Pharmacy

    Trans people are humiliated by healthcare system

    CL Minou

    CL Minou: From needless psychological inquiry to picking up a prescription, humiliation is common for trans people

24 November 2010

  • Gendered behaviour: what can science tell us?

    Sex and Science: Audio: How do males and females differ? The latest scientific research into such gender questions is discussed at this public forum

23 November 2010

  • women brains

    Let's talk about sex differences. Again

    Carol Tavris

    Carol Tavris: I have been writing about gender my whole professional life and I am tired of researchers repeating the same errors

20 November 2010

  • Fertility: keeping the care in healthcare policy

    Anne Kerr
    Anne Kerr: When thinking about entitlement to assisted conception services, empathy and compassion need to be foregrounded

15 November 2010

  • 'There's a responsibility for people who look at sex differences to do so in a very careful way'

    Video: In advance of a Guardian/University of Cambridge public forum on gender and behaviour, Simon Baron Cohen talks about male brains, autism, genes and culture

14 November 2010

  • The truth about sex difference is that if men are from Mars, so are women

    Madeleine Bunting

    Madeleine Bunting: Grasping after certainty about gender roles has fostered some bad science and stereotyping that harms both sexes

12 November 2010

  • A man walks on a footbridge

    Does empowering women really make men less 'relevant'?

    Hugo Schwyzer
    Hugo Schwyzer: Feminism, in concert with new contraceptive technologies, offers men a chance to rethink and re-evaluate their purpose

10 November 2010

  • Abortion is about balancing rights – religious medics don't get the final say

    Leslie Cannold

    Leslie Cannold: The religious rights of a small group of medical professionals do not trump those held by the remainder of the citizenry

5 November 2010

  • IVF treatment sperm being injected into human egg

    Making babies in the 21st century

    guardian.co.uk

    Sex and science: From posthumous conception to the right to have children, this week's public forum examined the rise of reproductive technologies

1 November 2010

  • Artificial Insemination

    Cif readers on … assisted reproduction

    The people's panel
  • Baby

    The meaning of a child of our 'own'

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

27 October 2010

  • Embryos frozen during the process of in vitro fertilisation

    Have you had experience of assisted reproduction or adoption?

    The people's panel

    The people's panel: We're looking for commenters who'll share their perspectives on IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy or adoption

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