A review by bookbanshee
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

An honest revision of a profoundly important text, which in fact doesn’t update any of the original work to suit contemporary terminology or perspectives, but rather offers an afterword that introduces the developments in the fields of research being explored. This approach to “revision” in fact serves to strengthen and reinforce the argument of the original work, that scientific research is unavoidably shaped by socio-cultural factors and researcher bias. Should be required reading for everyone but especially every TERF that insists upon the sanctity of “biological sex”. Binary logics are a tool of control under colonialism and white supremacy, and are logics to which the natural world stubbornly refuse to conform.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma

Chooses to use dated terminology now considered offensive and inappropriate by the intersex community, when that terminology is historically relevant or the terminology used in the study being explicated.