Cyd Cipolla is associate faculty in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Kristina Gupta is assistant professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. David A. Rubin is assistant professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida. Angela Willey is assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology.

Acknowledgments

Queer Feminist Science Studies: An Introduction

Part One | Histories of Difference

1. Sexing the X: How the X Became the "Female Chromosome" / Sarah S. Richardson

2. Pelvic Politics: Sexual Dimorphism and Racial Difference / Sally Markowitz

3. The Sexual Reproduction of "Race": Bisexuality, History, and Racialization / Merl Storr

4. From Masturbator to Homosexual: The Construction of the Sex Pervert / Ladelle McWhorter

5. "An Unnamed Blank that Craved a Name": A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender / David A. Rubin

Part Two | Contemporary Archives and Case Studies

1. Black Anality / Jennifer C. Nash

2. At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X / Alison Kafer

3. "BIID"? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of "Home" / Nikki Sullivan

4. The Allure of Artifice: Deploying a Filipina Avatar in the Digital Porno-Tropics / Mitali Thakor

5. Gone, Missing: Queering and Racializing Absence in Trans & Intersex Archives / Hilary Malatino

Part Three | Disruptive Practices

1. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity / Michelle Murphy

2. Pussy Ballistics and the Queer Appeal of Peristalsis, or Belly Dancing with Margaret Cho / Rachel Lee

3. Embodiments of Safety / Kane Race

4. Consent, Capacity, and the Non-Narrative / Amber Musser

5. Brains, Sex, and Queers 2090: An Ideal Experiment / Isabelle Dussauge

Part Four | Beyond the Human

1. "Why Do Voles Fall in Love?": Sexual Dimorphism in Monogamy Gene Research / Angela Willey and Sara Giordano

2. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby

3. "The Bio-Technological Impact" and "Abstract Sex" / Luciana Parisi

4. Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections / Mel Y. Chen

5. Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons / Aimee Bahng

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