Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France

The measurement of psychological androgyny.

This article describes the development of a new sex-role inventory that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics. Normative data are presented, as well as the resu...

The economic calculation debate: lessons for socialists

This paper summarises the standard account of the economic calculation debate, the modern Austrian reinterpretation of the debate based on the centrality of tacit knowledge and discovery, and a neglected third strand in the historical debate, Dobb's insistence on the uncertainty associated with atomistic decision making and the need for ex ante planning. It then draws some lessons for socialist...

The Portuguese Socialists and the Third Way

Age differences in the androgyny score.

METHODS The sample examined consisted of 413 men and 406 women aged 20-90 years. This sample was obtained in two parts. The first contained 215 men and 272 women aged 62-90 years, who formed a simple random sample of the 27,000 older people living in a defined area of Edinburgh. The method of sampling these subjects, who are taking part in a longitudinal study of ageing persons, has been descri...

Chemical ecology: Reprogramming a termite monarchy.

authors identified a tyrosinase-like enzyme, NspF, that was homologous to tyrosinaselike GriF in grixazone biosynthesis. Tyrosinases contain a binuclear copper cluster and have known functions as monoand diphenol oxidases (for example, in melanin production), in keeping with the elucidated role of GriF. However, because a traditional N-oxidase was absent from the 4,3-HNBAm gene cluster, the aut...