Anne Fausto-Sterling

Embryologist Sexologist Biologist Gender-Fundamentalist

“There are and will continue to be highly masculine people out there; it’s just that some of them are women. And some of the most feminine people I know happen to be men.” - The Five Sexes, Revisited (2000)

Anne Fausto-Sterling was born in 1944 in Germany. She currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island where for the last twenty-five years she has been a professor at Brown University. Her ideas and work are some of the most profound in the world. One of her greatest arguments is that there are five sexes, not two, as most people tend to believe. She has opened the doors for herms, merms and ferms everywhere in the world. She urgently advocates that understanding feminist insights into science is vital to students and researchers abroad.

Education

It proved to be very difficult to find any information regarding her educational background.

Professional & Activist History

She has been teaching at Brown University for twenty-five years and in addition to her two books, she is the general editor for a book series published by Indiana University Press entitled “Race Gender and Science.” She lectures abroad and is quite sharp in her criticisms on gender. She is a professor of women’s studies and biology in the department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry. She has won numerous awards including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Poetry and Prose

Anne has written two books, Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body. There are countless articles written by her as well as about her. She is a very important sexologist and feminist. She really challenges the way you’re thinking and after reading her articles you find yourself really pondering the idea of five sexes. She really started questioning racism and sexism in science after her first book was published.

Publications

Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about men and women. Basic Books, 1995.

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books, February 2000.

Works about the Author

Fausto-Sterling, A. and H. Smith-Schiess (1982) Interactions between fused and engrailed two mutations affecting pattern formation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 101, 71-80.

Fausto-Sterling, A. and L. Hsieh (1993) The behavior during the initial phase of in vitro aggregation of dissociated disc cells from Drosophila melanogaster. Develop. Biology 100, 339-349.

Fausto-Sterling, A., F.A. Muckenthaler, L. Hsieh and P.L. Rosenblatt (1985) Some determinants of cellular adhesiveness in an embryonic cell line from Drosophila melanogaster. J. Exptl. Zool. 234, 47-55.

Films

To the best of my knowledge no films have been made specifically about Anne.

Work cited

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Fausto-Sterling, Anne. The Five Sexes, Revisited.