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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. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Alyce Santoro: Add a description of this character.
- Lillie
- Jost
- Moore
- Yerkes
- Diamond
- Doisy
- John Money: He helped build awareness and advanced medicine, but played way too heavily with the nurture component of identity.
- Marshall
- Young
- Havelock Ellis
- Joan
- Emma
- Margaret Sanger
- Gordon
- Kessler
- Ehrhardt
- Butler
- Steinach
- Whalen
- Dewhurst
- Hampson
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IN THE RUSH AND EXCITEMENT OF LEAVING FOR THE 1988 OLYMPICS, Maria Patiño, Spain's top woman hurdler, forgot the requisite doctor's certificate stating, for the benefit of Olympic officials, what seemed patently obvious to anyone who looked at her: she was female.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anne Fausto-Sterling (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 155.3
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