Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
by Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Author: Anne Fausto-SterlingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11-22
ISBN: 0465077145
Number of pages: 488
Publisher: Basic Books
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Book Review: An informative and revealing read
Summary: 5 Stars
An accessible book that lays out the historical assumptions about sex and gender and subjects them to insightful critique. "Sexing the Body" reveals the important role science has played in reinforcing social consensus on the nature of sexuality and effectively erasing sexually ambiguous bodies from society. Fausto-Sterling's arguments are so decisive that it is impossible to close the book without a serious re-examination of one's own attitudes to sex and gender, and a sense of shock at the physical, sexual and psychological obstacles intersexuals - those with physical elements of both male and female - face in a world which acknowledges only two sexes.
Informative, challenging and much recommended.
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