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Sexing the body : gender politics and the construction of sexuality / Anne Fausto-Sterling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex differences.
- Gender identity.
- Sex differentiation.
- Intersexuality.
- Sex (Biology).
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (487 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Basic Books, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 DUELING DUALISMS; 2 ''THAT SEXE WHICH PREVAILETH''; 3 OF GENDER AND GENITALS: THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE MODERN INTERSEXUAL; 4 SHOULD THERE BE ONLY TWO SEXES?; 5 SEXING THE BRAIN: HOW BIOLOGISTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE; 6 SEX GLANDS, HORMONES, AND GENDER CHEMISTRY; 7 DO SEX HORMONES REALLY EXIST? (GENDER BECOMES CHEMICAL); 8 THE RODENT'S TALE; 9 GENDER SYSTEMS: TOWARD A THEORY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-449) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7867-2433-1
- OCLC:
- 818855499
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