ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on the framework and methods of “Life, Sex, and Cells,” using selected examples of course content as illustrations. She discusses to characterize a potential example of how scientific content and feminist approaches can be woven together to make sense for us and our students. By learning substantial content in order to understand and create critique, students become able to discover what the paradigms are missing, and to evaluate the paradigms’ evidence and consequences. To begin the course, students must recognize multiple meanings for sex, reproduction, and gender, and become familiar with the variety of characteristics of sex and reproduction to be found among the species. They must use this information in considering the natural world and the ways humans try to make sense of the natural world. Sex occurs, at least intermittently or for some individuals, in a majority of the 30 million or so unicellular and multicellular species.
