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Differenz und Vererbung. Geschlechterordnungen in der Genetik und Hormonforschung 1890-1950

This research output merits double-weighting because it represents the generation of a particularly complex concept, investigating three different research contexts in comparison. The book is based on the collection and analysis of a considerable body of material; the use of primary sources was especially extensive. The presentation of a critical insight, argument, and complex interpretation was dependent upon the completion of a lengthy period of data collection.

The book investigates key questions of historical science and gender studies: How did social and symbolic gender orders co-determine the concepts of genetics and hormone research in the first half of the 20th century? How was scientific work in the laboratory organised along the lines drawn by gender difference? It focuses on three leading German and internationally connected research groups who investigated how sex/gender difference was inherited and how an organism developed a gendered identity. The scientific problems were intrinsically linked with the political debates on the gendered and racial order of Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, and National Socialism.