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Sexing the Rotifer: Reading Nonhuman Animals’ Sex and Reproduction in 19th-Century Biology

In: Society & Animals
Author:
K. Smilla Ebeling University of Salzburg, Email: kirstensmilla.ebeling@sbg.ac.at

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01 Jan 2011
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Abstract

This paper looks at the role nonhuman animals play in how we think about sex, gender, and sexuality in zoology and in society. In examining the history of ideas regarding a microscopic invertebrate species—rotifers—the paper explores how humans have projected aspects of their lives onto nonhuman animals and how they have extrapolated from nonhuman animals to human society. The paper emphasizes the intersections between knowledge about nonhuman animals and gender and sexuality politics.

Title:
Sexing the Rotifer: Reading Nonhuman Animals’ Sex and Reproduction in 19th-Century Biology
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/156853011X578974
Language:
English
Pages:
305–315
Keywords:
rotifers; gender and sexuality politics; thinking with nonhuman animals; dioecism; all-female species; knowledge production in biology; parthenogenesis
In:
Society & Animals
In:
Volume 19: Issue 3
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5306
Print ISSN:
1063-1119
Subjects:
General, Philosophy, Applied Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Social & Political Philosophy

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