Sunday, December 27, 2009
Revisiting Anne Fausto-Sterling's 'Sexing The Body'
Posted by MgS at 12/27/2009 12:50:00 PM

http://crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2009/12/reviewing-anne-fausto-sterlings-sexing.html

I read this book a couple of years ago, but recently some of her writing has come up in various discussions I've been having. I'll admit that when I reviewed my notes from a few years ago that I didn't entirely agree with her arguments when I read Sexing the Body at the time.

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However, looking at it today, I find myself thinking that there's a fundamental point that I agree with Fausto-Sterling on - namely that the current models for describing physical gender are far too limited for the realities that we are gradually, but persistently uncovering. Gender is about the only part of medicine which is absolute - we are categorized as "male" or "female" at birth and so it must remain for all time.