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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality Paperback - 2000

by Fausto-Sterling, Anne


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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 of Myths of Gender argues 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.

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  • Title Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
  • Author Fausto-Sterling, Anne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Pages 488
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-11
  • ISBN 9780465077144

About the author

Anne Fausto-Sterling is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University.
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