- Gender identity, Hermaphroditism, Sex (Biology), Sex Characteristics
"Is it a boy or a girl? Our automatic first question about a new baby reveals how profoundly we believe that sex difference is natural and inborn, and how fundamental sex is to our conception of human identity.
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Spare, contemporary, earnest and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Fausto-Sterling
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 473
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Tandem Library, Perseus Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613706315
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