Sexing the body : gender politics and the construction of sexuality / Anne Fausto-Sterling

Por: Fausto-Sterling, AnneTipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: New York : Basic Books, 2000 Descripción: XII, 473 p. : il. ; 25 cmISBN: 0-465-07714-5Tema(s): Diferencias sexuales | Sexología | Identidad sexualResumen: 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.Resumen: Índice: Dueling dualisms -- "That sexe which prevaileth" -- Of gender and genitals: the use and abuse of the modern intersexual -- Should there be only two sexes? -- Sexing the brain: how biologists make a difference -- Sex glands, hormones, and gender chemistry -- Do sex hormones really exist? (Gender becomes chemical) -- The rodent's tale -- Gender systems: toward a theory of human sexuality.
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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 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.

Índice: Dueling dualisms -- "That sexe which prevaileth" -- Of gender and genitals: the use and abuse of the modern intersexual -- Should there be only two sexes? -- Sexing the brain: how biologists make a difference -- Sex glands, hormones, and gender chemistry -- Do sex hormones really exist? (Gender becomes chemical) -- The rodent's tale -- Gender systems: toward a theory of human sexuality.

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