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9780465077144

Sexing the Body

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465077144

  • ISBN10:

    0465077145

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-30
  • Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author ofMyths of Genderargues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms - sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed - and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

Author Biography

Anne Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and medicine at Brown University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Dueling Dualisms
1(29)
``That Sexe Which Prevaileth''
30(15)
Of Gender and Genitals: The Use and Abuse of the Modern Intersexual
45(33)
Should There Be Only Two Sexes?
78(37)
Sexing the Brain: How Biologists Make a Difference
115(31)
Sex Glands Hormones, and Gender Chemistry
146(24)
Do Sex Hormones Really Exist? (Gender Becomes Chemical)
170(25)
The Rodent's Tale
195(38)
Gender Systems: Toward a Theory of Human Sexuality
233(24)
Notes 257(124)
Bibliography 381(70)
Index 451

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