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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 Hardcover - 1999

by Anne Fausto-Sterling


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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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IN THE RUSH AND EXCITEMENT OF LEAVING FOR THE 1988 OLYMPICS, Maria Patiño, Spain's top woman hurdler, forgot the requisite doctor's certificate stating, for the benefit of Olympic officials, what seemed patently obvious to anyone who looked at her: she was female.

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  • Title Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
  • Author Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 473
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465077137 / 0465077137
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.57 x 6.57 x 1.35 in (24.31 x 16.69 x 3.43 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Gender Identity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00703212
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.33
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