Interdisciplinary study of human sexuality, gender, and sex: this research will help us to better understand sexuality as an important phenomena in peoples lives and our culture.
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Defining New Fields: Social Neuroendocrinology
Sari Michelle 眠an 涉nders is a leader in feminist bioscience and sex research. Her award-winning research spans across natural, social and health sciences, to the arts, and humanities. The research contributes to our understandings of sexual phenomena like orgasm, fantasy, desire, and pornography as well as larger related constructs like gender and sexual diversity.
Having led and established the new field of social neuroendocrinology, van Anders is asking new groundbreaking questions. For example, van Anders is researching how gendered experiences modulate testosterone, how testosterone responds when a person marginalizes others, and why certain sexual phenomena change a persons hormones and immunity.
With the creation of sexual configurations theory, van Anders work will next explore how the experiences of those from sexual and gender minorities and majorities can better be thought about and understood in science, and in our lives.