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| Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne Fausto-sterling
Publisher: Basic Books
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 488
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Dimensions (inch): 8 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0465077145
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.3
EAN: 9780465077144
Publication Date: November 22, 2000
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 Leading Feminist Embryologist Takes on Her Own Science February 5, 2003
12 out of 14 found this comment useful.
Fausto-Sterling will take her place in feminist history as the leading embryologist, and perhaps even, the leading scientist, doing gender studies in the latter 20th and earlier 21st centuries. Who would have thought she could excell beyond her ground-breaking text, "Myths of Gender"? This time she takes on her own scientific field, exposing how blindered, sexist, heterosexist, and flat out stuck and harm-inducing it has become. Given that she presents her arguments in the body of the text in a very reader-friendly language and style, and has nearly a separate text of endnotes of hard-core feminist critical analyses ta boot, we've got in this great work of hers a text reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guinneas." Anne Fausto-Sterling's special interest this go around is science's primary complicity in the (hetero) sexing of psycho-medically dominated and controlled bodies. She provides one of the best feminist analyses of Gender Systematicity as the key politically shaped, shaping, and biased torture device for transsexual and intersex people today. This is a very important text for sexology, feminist, gender, queer, US, cultural, and transgender studies, history of science, and anthropology of medicine and science. It's a brave read, if not deadly on point. Probably best for graduate scholars, but should be required for any professional in sexology, gender specialist, or medical personnel before they lay one hand or idea of treatment on transsexual or intersex people!
EDUCATION IS PARAMOUNT! October 2, 2002
3 out of 14 found this comment useful.
Humans, God's remarkable creation. It seems as though man's curiosity can't help but destroy the creation. This book is very educational and full of information to all sexes. For centuries, intersex children were outcasts, and poked fun of with evil jeers. This book tells and shows you about the intersex gender, and its existence. The book is rated E: for everyone.
Essential Reading ! June 7, 2002
5 out of 8 found this comment useful.
Wonderfully written and researched! Fausto-Sterling makes a very consice and directed argument. Her position inspires me as a gay man, a scientist and as a human being.
When It Comes to Sex ,... July 25, 2001
18 out of 20 found this comment useful.
...it all comes down to emotions, recalling that the original meaning of that word was a movement of people, a civil disturbance. From the intersexual to the homosexual, Fausto-Sterling reviews the history and politics that informed the science and medical practice of 20th Century sex. I happily add this volume on the gender politics of popular science to a different but equally interesting work by Simon LeVay, Queer Science. However unlike LeVay, Fausto-Sterling recognizes a relationship between sexualized science and the rise of American monopoly capitalism (and its demands for social stability) though her observations in this arena are frustratingly preliminary. Readers of this book might also enjoy Jennifer Terry's An American Obsession which delves more deeply into cultural history.
Fresh Air In A Sexist World March 20, 2000
7 out of 14 found this comment useful.
Everyone should read this book,it opens up a pandora's box to what really goes on behind the closed doors of gender 'research' and genderism in our and other societies.
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