Chapter 1: A Genderless Future? Chapter 2: Of Spirals and Layers. Chapter 3: Of Molecules and Sex. Chapter 4: Of Hormones and Brains. Chapter Five: Am I a Boy or a Girl?-- The Emergence of Gender Identity. Chapter 6: Thinking about Homosexuality. Chapter 7: Thinking about Groups; Thinking about Individuals. Chapter 8: Pink and Blue Forever. Chapter 9: The Developmental Dynamics of Pink and Blue. Chapter 10: Epilogue:The Future of Gender (and Sex).
Anne Fausto-Sterling, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, is a leading expert on the development of sexual identity as well as the biology of gender. Her latest research analyzes the emergence of behavioral differences between the sexes in early childhood. She is the author of two earlier books; Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men (Basic, 1993) and Sexing the Body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality (Basic, 2000).
"Finally! This is the book we need to teach the dynamic nature
of biology to our gender and sexuality students. Pushing us beyond
simple stories of nature and nurture, Anne Fausto-Sterling gets us
to see the world developmentally. With this book we can think the
future of gender and sexuality in biologically sophisticated
ways."
-Elizabeth A Wilson, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
Emory University"Fausto-Sterling gives the reader a
fascinating account of why sex is not a unitary phenomenon but
rather a cumulative composite of separate components that, in the
case of humans, has some unique attributes (e.g., legal sex, gender
identity, gender role and partner preference). This book is ideal
for those of us that want to better understand the biological bases
of human sexuality but it is equally informative to those that
still struggle with the fact sex / gender is neither binary nor
canonical."-David Crews, Integrative Biology and Psychology,
University of Texas at Austin"Many books on sex/gender are
either approachable or sophisticated; this book combines the two
better than anything yet written. Who besides Anne Fausto-Sterling
could pack so much information from so many different approaches
into one tight little book on sex/gender? Fausto-Sterling
synthesizes approaches and examples from biology, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, genetics, medicine and more to craft a
provocative and erudite overview of sex and gender - what we know
now, how we know it, and - crucially - how our thinking and future
research could be clearer and more useful." -Rebecca M.
Jordan-Young, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard
College
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