Sexing the Body : Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
ISBN: 9780465077144 | 0465077145
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 11/29/2000
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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 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 im... MORE
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and medicine at Brown University.
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