Sexing the Body by Fausto-Sterling, Anne -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Preface Acknowledgments 1: Dueling Dualisms

Male or Female? Sex or Gender? Real or Constructed? Nature or Nurture? Dualisms Denied Beyond Dualisms

2: “That Sexe Which Prevaileth”

The Sexual Continuum Hermaphrodite History The Making of the Modern Intersexual Arguing About Sex and Gender Inter Sexuals Under Medical Surveillance

3: Of Gender and Genitals: The Use and Abuse of the Modern Intersexual

Confronting the Inter Sex Newborn “Fixing” Intersexuals The Uses of Intersexuality Wrap-up: Reading Nature is a Sociocultural Act

4: Should There Be Only two Sexes?

Hermaphroditic Heresies First, Do No Harm The Right to Refuse Revisiting the Five Sexes Toward the End of Gender Tyranny: Get Ting There from Here

5: Sexing the Brain: How Biologists Make a Difference

The Callosum Colossus Taming the Wild C C Talking Heads: Do Facts Speak for Themselves?

6: Sex Glands , Hormones, and Gender Chemistry

In Which Testosterone Taints the Fountain of Youth Hormones! the Very Idea!

7: Do Sex Hormones Really Exist ? (Gender Becomes Chemical)

Getting Ready for the Deluge Purifying Measuring Naming Gender Meanings

8: The Rodent’s Tale

Using Hormones to Sex the Brain If Hormones Make the Man, What Makes the Woman? The Nerve of It All: From Bisexual to Heterosexual Spreading the Word

9: Gender Systems: Toward A Theory of Human Sexuality

Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Girl “R” Genes Us? Socializing the Cell Thank Heaven for Little Girls— and Little Boys, Too Russian Dolls

Notes

Bibliography Index