Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1The Science Wars
*Platonist or Aristotelian?
*Temperament and Visions
*Early Science Wars: A Very Short History
*The Current Scene
*Conclusion
Chapter 2Social Constructionism
*What Is Social Constructionism?
*Weak versus Strong Social Constructionism
*Fact Constructionism
*Sticking Points: Contingency, Nominalism, and Scientific Stability
*Conclusion
Chapter 3Science and Knowing
*Defending Science
* Rationalism
*Francis Bacon and Empiricism
*Bacon and Metaphor
*Thomas Kuhn and Scientific Relativism and Revolution
*Relativism
*Conclusion
Chapter 4The Conceptual Tools of Science
*Terms of Opprobrium
*Determinism and Freedom
*"Biological Determinism"
*Essentialism
*Reductionism
*Conclusion
Chapter 5Human Nature
*Is There a Human Nature, and How Do We Know?
*Natural Selection and Human Nature
*Sexual Selection and Male-Female Natures
*Selection for Biparental Care and Its Consequences
*Conclusion
Chapter 6Social Constructionism and Gender
*Gender Construction
*Gender Socialization and Gender Differences
*The Influence of Margaret Mead
*Ecological Explanations
*Melford Spiro: The Reluctant Apostate
*Conclusion
Chapter 7The Neurohormonal Basis of Gender
*Sexing the Brain
*Disorders of Sex Development: What Can They Tell Us about Gender?
*Transsexuals
*Other Gender-Confounding Conditions
*Conclusion
Chapter 8A Further Journey into the Gendered Brain
*Sex on the Brain
*Softwiring the Brain
*Brain Laterality
*Arousal Levels
*Dolls, Trucks, Evolution, and the Visual System
*Sugar and Spice; Snips and Snails
*Empathy
*Fear
*Conclusion
Chapter 9Race and Racism
*Race as Social Construct
*Race in Antiquity and Its Relationship to Slavery
*Racism East and West
*Is Race a Socially Dangerous Idea?
*Race and Racism in the Modern United States
*Conclusion
Chapter 10The Enlightenment and Scientific
*Racial Classification
*Major Definitions of Race
*Morphology and Race
*Evolution and Behavior
*Behavioral and Psychological Traits and Race
*Anti-White Racism and White Studies
*Conclusion
Chapter 11Race and Molecular Genetics
*Essentialism Revisited
*How Does One Prove that Something Does Not Exist?
*Race and Genetic Distance
*Lewontin Proves a Negative�or Does He?
*Postgenomic Clustering Studies
*Conclusion1
Chapter 12Is Peace Possible?
*Know Thy Enemy
*Arguments from Fear
*The Moralistic Fallacy
*Is Detente Possible?
*Gender, Race, and Interactive Kinds
*A Rose Is a Rose by Any Other Name�Or Is It?
*Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Anthony Walsh
