Author: Anne Fausto-Sterling

Anne Fausto-Sterling brings biology, gender studies, and the history of scientific ideas into sustained conversation. Sex/Gender presents biological development and social experience as interacting processes rather than rival explanations. Published by Routledge in 2012, the book introduces readers to biochemistry, neurobiology, hormones, childhood development, identity, and cultural expectations while also considering the ethical and political consequences of scientific categories. It belongs to the Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture. Fausto-Sterling is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, where her research examined how behavioral differences emerge during early childhood. Her earlier books include Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body, both of which question simple claims that human difference can be separated from the practices used to study and classify it. Sex/Gender distills that larger research program into an accessible, interdisciplinary guide. Its central method is developmental: bodies and environments continually affect one another, so explanation requires attention to time, context, and the assumptions built into measurement.