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Biography
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young (born 1963) is an American sociomedical scientist whose research focuses on sex, gender and sexuality, as well as the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS.
Life and career
Jordan-Young completed her undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Jordan-Young was a principal investigator and deputy director of the Social Theory Core at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research of the National Development and Research Institutes. She has served as a health disparities scholar sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. In 2008, Jordan-Young was a visiting scholar in cognitive neuroscience at the International School for Advanced Studies.
She is the author of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences, a critical analysis of scientific research supporting the theory that psychological sex differences in humans are "hard-wired" into the brain. Jordan-Young argues that studies of “human brain organization theory,” fail to meet scientific standards.
In Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes, a collaborative article with Katrina Karkazis, Georgiann Davis, and Silvia Camporesi, published in 2012 in the American Journal of Bioethics, the authors argue that a new sex testing policy by the International Association of Athletics Federations aimed at intersex women athletes will not protect against breaches of privacy, will require athletes to undergo unnecessary treatment in order to compete, and will intensify "gender policing". They recommend that athletes be able to compete in accordance with their legal gender.
In 2016, Jordan-Young was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a book on testosterone, "T: The Unauthorized Biography", with co-author Katrina Karkazis.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences. Harvard University Press. September 2010. ISBN 9780674057302.
Journals
- Karkazis, Katrina; Jordan-Young, Rebecca (May 2015). "Debating a testosterone "sex gap"". Science. 348 (6237): 858–860. doi:10.1126/science.aab1057. PMID 25999490. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- Rippon, Gina; Jordan-Young, Rebecca; Kaiser, Anelis; Fine, Cordelia (August 2014). "Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: key principles and implications for research design, analysis, and interpretation". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00650. ISSN 1662-5161. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- Jordan-Young, R. M.; Sonksen, P. H.; Karkazis, K. (April 2014). "Sex, health, and athletes". BMJ. 348 (apr28 9): –2926–g2926. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2926. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 24776640. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- Karkazis, Katrina; Jordan-Young, Rebecca; Davis, Georgiann; Camporesi, Silvia (July 2012). "Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes". The American Journal of Bioethics. 12 (7): 3–16. doi:10.1080/15265161.2012.680533. ISSN 1526-5161. PMID 22694023. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- Jordan-Young, Rebecca M. (June 2012). "Hormones, context, and "Brain Gender": A review of evidence from congenital adrenal hyperplasia". Social Science & Medicine. 74 (11): 1738–1744. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.08.026. ISSN 0277-9536. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
Editorials
- Karkazis, Katrina; Jordan-Young, Rebecca (April 2014). "The Trouble With Too Much T". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- Jordan-Young, R. M.; Karkazis, K. (June 2012). "You Say You're a Woman? That Should Be Enough". The New York Times.