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Sexing the Body
by Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Basic Books, 2020. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2020 Basic Books softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking.
Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.
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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- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1560
- Title
- Sexing the Body
- Author
- Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1541672895
- ISBN 13
- 9781541672895
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- sex/gender, nature/nurture, real/constructed, LGBTQ+, Civil Rights,
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