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The Boy who was Turned into a Girl
91Èȱ¬2 9.00pm Thursday 7th December 2000
Books:
Sexing
the Body
Anne
Fausto-Sterling, Basic Books, 2000.
A historian of science, Fausto-Sterling discusses the futility of
the nature/nurture debate of sexually versus socially constructed
gender. She is very critical about assigning gender simply into
male and female, instead stressing that these are two extremes of
a continuum.
Sex on the Brain
Deborah Blum, Penguin Books, 1997.
Blum retells the quest of scientists to prove that male and female
characteristics are not social constructs but that there is a strong
bias for our gender-typical behaviour. She recounts the experiments
and the observations made to disprove the behaviourist's attitude
of gender being purely environmentally determined.
Web-links:
The Johns Hopkins University website has pages devoted to abnormal
sex differentiation, as well as more about David Reimer's story.
Support groups:
Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Disorders.
The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group.
Intersex Society of North America.
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