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Sexing the Body

Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

By Anne Fausto-Sterling

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| Hardcover | 9780465077137

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This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality goes beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is se Continue

This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality goes beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality. 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 should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 473 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0465077137
  • ISBN-13: 9780465077137
  • Publisher: Perseus Books
  • Publish date: 1999-11-01
  • Dimensions: 236 mm x 156 mm x 34 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback , eBook
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