MYRA J. HIRD is Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Canada. Her research and teaching interests span the areas of science studies, health, the ontology and epistemology of sexual difference, sexuality, ethics and social justice, violence, disability studies, feminist theory and queer theory. She is the author of
Sociology of Science: A Critical Canadian Introduction,
Sex, Gender and Science and
Engendering Violence: From Childhood to Adulthood, as well as three co-edited collections, including
Queering the (Non-)Human,
Questioning Sociology: Canadian Perspectives and
Sociology for the Asking.