Professor
Fausto-Sterling's most recent work, entitled Sexing
the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality,
was published by Basic Books in February 2000. It examines
the social nature of biological knowledge about animal
and human sexuality.
Sexing
the Body received the Distinguished Publication
Award in 2001 by the Association for Women in Psychology.
In 2000 it was chosen as one of the Outstanding Academic
Books of 2000 by CHOICE Magazine, Published
by the American Library Association. It was also co-winner
of the Robert K Merton Award of the American
Sociological Association Section on Science,
Knowledge and Technology.
From
the back cover:
"Why do some people prefer heterosexual love
while others fancy the same sex? Do women and men
have different brains? Is sexual identity biologically
determined or a product of social convention? In this
brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author
of Myths of Gender argues that the answers to these
thorny questions lie as much in the realm of politics
as they do in the world of science. Without pandering
to the press or politics, Fausto-Sterling builds an
entirely new framework for sexing the body-one that
focuses solely on the individual."
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