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Sexing The Body : Gender Politics & The Construction Of Sexuality - Anne Fausto-Sterling!

Posted by Jeevan ॐ Mirthu Gupt on May 30, 2013 at 1:50 PM

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, and as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality....


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