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Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality

Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality

Name: Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Anne Fausto-Sterling
ISBN: 9780465077137

Anne Fausto-Sterling

10/02/2000
Basic Books

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Couverture de Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality par Anne Fausto-Sterling

Résumé

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.