Ebook: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.;Preface; acknowledgments; 1 dueling dualisms; 2 ''that sexe which prevaileth''; 3 of gender and genitals: the use and abuse of the modern intersexual; 4 should there be only two sexes?; 5 sexing the brain: how biologists make a difference; 6 sex glands, hormones, and gender chemistry; 7 do sex hormones really exist? (gender becomes chemical); 8 the rodent's tale; 9 gender systems: toward a theory of human sexuality; notes; bibliography; index.