Anne Fausto-Sterling

Mar 9, 2024 | stopthecoup2025.org | Anne Fausto-Sterling

What are sex and gender? Are they different? The world we live in takes the concept of biological sex very seriously: we divide it into two strict categories, with no overlap, and treat the people in each category differently. Males and females are considered to be completely distinct from each other, and our whole society supports this concept. They are presented as being polar opposites, and often people use the word binary to describe these distant poles, a word that means composed of two things.

Dec 1, 2023 | pbs.org | Anne Fausto-Sterling

Intersexuals, formerly called hermaphrodites, have been around as long ashumans have, though until recently few felt comfortable enough to "come out"about their conditions. Two Sexes Are Not Enoughby Anne Fausto-SterlingIn 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, askedthe town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotlycontested local election.

Nov 23, 2023 | science.org | Anne Fausto-Sterling

Is the Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük a fertility goddess? Perhaps not. Open in viewerToday’s patriarchal systems may appear robust and inevitable, but history shows that they are neither permanent nor preordained. This week in a special bonus segment of this series, host Angela Saini discusses her own book, The Patriarchs, which dispels commonly invoked myths about gender inequality and reveals how gendered power structures are constantly being renegotiated and reasserted.

Oct 26, 2023 | science.org | Brian Wood |Eugenia Saini |Shinichi Sunami |Anne Fausto-Sterling

PHOTO: LEV DOLGACHOV/ALAMY STOCK PHOTOOpen in viewerThe discrimination and harassment faced by women scientists in the West have been increasingly discussed and debated in recent years; however, the challenges faced by women researchers in non-Western contexts remain underexplored. This week on the Science podcast, Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj examine how gender intersects with other identities and with social expectations in India’s scientific community.

Sep 28, 2023 | science.org | Jens C. Brüning |Joana I. Meier |Erik D Enbody |Anne Fausto-Sterling

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