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Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541672909 |
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Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. 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 as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.
Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0415881455 |
Download Sex/gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.
Author | : Chris Shilling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0198739036 |
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In this introduction, Chris Shilling considers the social significance of the human body, and the importance of the body to individual and collective identities. He examines how bodies not only shape but are shaped by the social, cultural, and material contexts in which humans live.
Author | : Sarah S. Richardson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022608471X |
Download Sex Itself Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical—with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age. Using methods from history, philosophy, and gender studies of science, Sarah S. Richardson uncovers how gender has helped to shape the research practices, questions asked, theories and models, and descriptive language used in sex chromosome research. From the earliest theories of chromosomal sex determination, to the mid-century hypothesis of the aggressive XYY supermale, to the debate about Y chromosome degeneration, to the recent claim that male and female genomes are more different than those of humans and chimpanzees, Richardson shows how cultural gender conceptions influence the genetic science of sex. Richardson shows how sexual science of the past continues to resonate, in ways both subtle and explicit, in contemporary research on the genetics of sex and gender. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, genes and chromosomes are moving to the center of the biology of sex. Sex Itself offers a compelling argument for the importance of ongoing critical dialogue on how cultural conceptions of gender operate within the science of sex.
Author | : Thomas Laqueur |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1992-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674543553 |
Download Making Sex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
Author | : Londa L. Schiebinger |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780813535319 |
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Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.
Author | : Shuqin Cui |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0824857429 |
Download Gendered Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The work presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label "feminist artist." An extensive analysis of artworks and artists—both well- and little-known—provides readers with discursively persuasive and visually provocative evidence. Gendered Bodies follows an interdisciplinary approach that general readers as well as scholars will find inspired and inspiring.
Author | : Jeanette Winterson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307763595 |
Download Written on the Body Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. “At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786723904 |
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By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs.
Author | : Tamar Mayer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134716001 |
Download Gender Ironies of Nationalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. It includes international case studies from Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA, Turkey, China, India and the Caribbean. The contributors offer both the masculine and feminine perspective, exposing how nations are comprised of sexed bodies, and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised. Whilst it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept the obligation of nation and nation building.