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News and Events => Science & Medical News => Topic started by: LostInTime on February 12, 2007, 07:22:48 AM

Title: Fausto-Sterling: "Our bodies are intricate systems"
Post by: LostInTime on February 12, 2007, 07:22:48 AM
Link (http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=4313)

"Our identities change over an entire life cycle," said Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling before a standing room only crowd at Wabash College Thursday.


The celebrated professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University gave a public lecture after spending the day in Wabash biology and psychology classrooms.


Fausto-Sterling has further advanced her research in the fields of biology, gender, and the construction of sexuality. In 1993 she wrote the controversial "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough" for The Sciences. In her article, she suggested there are at least three so-called "intersexes" that go beyond normal male or female identification. Her research focused on earlier scientific studies of genital and chromosomal abnormalities and their roles in gender development.