Anne Fausto-Sterling

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Anne Fausto-Sterling (2013)

Anne Fausto-Sterling (* 1944 ) is an American bioscientist .

biography

Fausto-Sterling received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and her PhD in developmental genetics from Brown University in 1970 .

Fausto-Sterling is Professor Emeritus of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. She works in the fields of science, technology, gender and sexuality research and the asexual reproduction of flatworms ( planarians ).

Fausto-Sterling's work addresses, among other things, how scientific knowledge is produced, how ethnicity and gender influence the way in which scientific questions are asked - and science is made - and what the biological nature of human sexuality actually is .

Fausto-Sterling has written two studies for a general public. With prisoners of sex? What biological theories say about men and women (German 1988) and Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality (English 2000) she is known for her critical approaches.

In Sexing the body she calls for "a change in medicine in dealing with intersex people ". She criticizes the sex assignment surgery, without the consent of the child concerned, as genital mutilation . Instead of having children sexually adjusted early after birth through a surgical procedure, parents and child should be given comprehensive medical information and long-term advice. Fausto-Sterling "also pleads for an expansion of the spectrum of gender categories that, in addition to the biological genders 'man' and 'woman', leaves room for people who stand between these categories".

On 26 September 2004 Fausto-Sterling married in Truro , Massachusetts , Paula Vogel , a college teacher of literature.

Work

  • 2012 Sex / gender: Biology in a social world . New York: Routledge.
  • 2005 The Bare Bones of Sex: Part I, Sex & Gender , Signs, 30 (2): 1491-528.
  • 2004 Refashioning Race: DNA and the Politics of Health Care. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 15 (3): 1-37.
  • 2002 Gender identification and Assignment in Intersex Children. Dialogues in Pediatric Urology 25: (6) 4-5
  • 2000 (together with Phornphutkul, Chanika; Gruppuso, Philip). Gender self-reassignment in an XY adolescent male born with ambiguous genitalia. Pediatrics 106: 135-142
  • 2000 (together with Blackless, Melanie; Charuvastra, Anthony; Derryck, Amanda; Lauzanne, Karl; Lee, Ellen). How Sexually Dimorphic Are We? Review and Synthesis ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). American Journal of Human Biology 12: 151-166. doi : 10.1002 / (SICI) 1520-6300 (200003/04) 12: 2 <151 :: AID-AJHB1> 3.0.CO; 2-F
  • 2000 Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000
  • 1988 Prisoners of Sex ?: What biological theories say about men and women, Munich / Zurich: Piper, 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae
  2. ^ Margret Karsch: Feminism. History - Positions, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2016, p. 197.
  3. ^ Margret Karsch: Feminism. History - Positions, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2016, p. 197.
  4. ^ Margret Karsch: Feminism. History - Positions, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2016, p. 197.
  5. ^ Margret Karsch: Feminism. History - Positions, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2016, p. 197.
  6. ^ New York Times: Paula Vogel, Anne Fausto-Sterling
personal data
SURNAME Fausto-Sterling, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fausto Sterling, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944