Reflections on Sex Equality under Law

Reflections on teaching law and medicine.

Sex, Dose, and Equality

A s a rule, genes and chromosomes come in pairs. Sex chromosomes are an exception to this rule. Males of many species have only one X chromosome, a male-specific Y chromosome, and a set of autosomes (AA). Individuals with two X chromosomes and a set of autosomes (XX;AA) are female. Sex chromosomes were first noticed for this distinct unpaired morphology and are now known to have substantially d...

Practical Constraints on Collaterals under Iranian Law

Sex Equality : Difference and Dominance

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a "natural group": "a socia! group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies." A lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a "natural group." A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from...

Women in cardiology research in Spain look forward to equality. Reflections from under the glass ceiling.

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