Anne Fausto-Sterling

Anne Fausto-Sterling
Fausto-Sterling speaking at the University of Geneva on 6 March 2019
Born
Anne Sterling

(1944-07-30) July 30, 1944 (age 82)
Queens, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
University of Wisconsin
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Women's studies
InstitutionsBrown University

Anne Fausto-Sterling (née Sterling; born July 30, 1944) is an American sexologist and geneticists. She is a professor at Brown University. Her works focuses on biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, gender roles, and intersexuality. Her research has has an impact on multiple fields such as biology, women's studies, feminist anthropology, and many more.

Fausto-Sterling has a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in developmental genetics from Brown University. She taught at Brown University for 40 years and taught courses in biology and gender studies. She was also the director and founder of the Science & Technology Studies Program at Brown University. Fausto-Sterling retired from Brown University in 2014.

Research

Fausto-Sterling explains biological ideas using a feminist point of view. The topics she speaks on most of the time include sex, gender, and human genetics. Fausto-Sterling uses Dynamic Systems theory, which comes from developmental psychology, to describe how people’s infancy and early childhood affect them in adulthood. A dynamic systems model is based on development and done over a long period of time. The gender/sex theory states that the infant and their caregiver, through their way of life, will give the infant a sense of gender/sex in their world. This can impact them later in life and could have an influence on their sexuality or gender identity.

Other Research Interests

Publications

Fausto-Sterling has written three books, the first book was published in 1985 and is titled Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men. Myths of Gender as well as Sexing the Body, were written for a general audience. Through these books Fausto-Sterling deals with the topics of gender, sex, and sexuality in new light than most biological writing. Fausto-Sterling’s work connects biological concepts with feminist theory.

Books

Book Chapters

She has also written other works like journal and online articles.  

References

  1. ↑ "Anne Fausto-Sterling". Brown University. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Fausto-Sterling, Anne". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  3. ↑ Ghorayshi, Azeen. "Conversations With Anne Fausto-Sterling | Method". Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  4. 1 2 3 Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2019-06-13). "Gender/Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Identity Are in the Body: How Did They Get There?". The Journal of Sex Research. 56 (4–5): 529–555. doi:10.1080/00224499.2019.1581883. ISSN 0022-4499. PMID 30875248. S2CID 80624574.
  5. ↑ Dreifus, Claudia (2001-01-02). "A CONVERSATION WITH -- Anne Fausto-Sterling; Exploring What Makes Us Male or Female". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  6. ↑ "What is intersex? | Intersex Society of North America". isna.org. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  7. ↑ "Gender & Sexuality". Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  8. ↑ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (1992). Myths of gender : biological theories about women and men (2nd ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 0-465-04792-0. OCLC 25748011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ↑ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2020), Sexing the body : gender politics and the construction of sexuality, Carol Monda, [New York], ISBN 978-1-5491-0448-0, OCLC 1161987912{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2012). Sex/gender : biology in a social world. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-88145-6. OCLC 671700623.
  11. ↑ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2014). "Nature". In Stimpson, Catherine R.; Herdt, Gilbert (eds.). Critical Terms for the Study of Gender. University of Chicago Press. pp. 294–315. doi:10.13140/2.1.3621.3129. ISBN 9780226774800.