Borders Are For Crossing: Reflections on methodology (original) (raw)

Abstract

In the late 1940s French embryologist Alfred Jost proposed that in the absence of testosterone a foetus would develop as female - by default. The default sex hypothesis had a profound effect on the production of knowledge about human sex for almost half a century. When feminist geneticists Eve Eicher and Linda Washburn reexamined Jost’s research in the 1980s, their findings stimulated a paradigm shift of revolutionary proportions paving the way for a radical reconceptualisation of the materiality of sex. Informed by the border crossings of feminist science studies, this paper engages with contemporary embryo-genetic research to illustrate the pleasures and rewards of engaging with bio-scientific data both as an object and as a resource.

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