Editing Anne Fausto-Sterling (section)

==Life and career==
Fausto-Sterling's mother, [[Dorothy Sterling]], was a noted writer and historian while her father was also a published writer.<ref name="NYT Wedding">{{cite web |title=Paula Vogel, Anne Fausto-Sterling |work=The New York Times |date=2004-09-26 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/fashion/weddings/26VOGE.html?ex=1185163200&en=74206651722ac22b&ei=5070 |access-date=2007-07-21 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Fausto-Sterling received her [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[zoology]] from the [[University of Wisconsin]] in 1965 and her Ph.D. in [[developmental genetics]] from [[Brown University]] in 1970. After earning her Ph.D. she joined the faculty of Brown, where she was appointed Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies.

In a 1993 paper titled "{{vanchor|The Five Sexes}}", Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of [[gender]] containing five sexes: [[male]], [[female]], merm, ferm, and [[Hermaphrodite|herm]].<ref name="Fausto-Sterling 1993">{{cite journal |author=Fausto-Sterling, Anne |title=The Five Sexes: Why male and female are not enough |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239657377 |journal=The Sciences |year=1993 |issue=March/April 1993 |pages=20–24 |s2cid=150941248 |doi=10.1002/j.2326-1951.1993.tb03081.x |issn=0036-861X |via=ResearchGate}}</ref>
She later said that the paper "had intended to be provocative, but I had also written with tongue firmly in cheek".<ref name="Fausto-Sterling 2000">{{cite journal |author=Fausto-Sterling, Anne |title=The Five Sexes, Revisited |journal=The Sciences |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=18–23 |year=2000 |pmid=12569934 |issn=0036-861X |doi=10.1002/j.2326-1951.2000.tb03504.x |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10915274 |via=ResearchGate}} {{block indent |left=1 |Reprinted in: {{cite book |editor1-last=Baca Zinn |editor1-first=Maxine |editor2-last=Messner |editor2-first=Michael A. |editor3-last=Hondagneu-Sotelo |editor3-first=Pierrette |title=Gender Through the Prism of Difference |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-1902-0004-6 |pages=17–21 |edition=5th}} }}</ref>

Fausto-Sterling has written two books intended for a general audience. The first of those books, ''Myths of Gender'', was first published in 1985.<ref name="Fausto-Sterling 1985">{{cite book |author=Fausto-Sterling, Anne |title=Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York |year=1985 |edition=1st |isbn=0-4650-4790-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/mythsofgenderbio00faus/page/n8/mode/1up |url-access=registration}}</ref>
Her second book for the general public is ''[[Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality]]'', published in 2000.<ref name="Stanley 2000">{{cite journal |last=Stanley |first=William B. |title=Deconstructing the discourse of sexual dimorphism: rethinking, bending, and crossing sexual boundaries |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=83–86 |date=2001 |doi=10.1080/00224490109552072 |s2cid=216090456 |jstor=3813268 |issn=0022-4499}}</ref><ref name="Tiefer 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Tiefer |first1=Leonore |title=Review: Hormone Mistreatment |journal=The Women's Review of Books |date=April 2000 |volume=17 |issue=7 |pages=8–9 |doi=10.2307/4023398 |jstor=4023398 |issn=0738-1433}}</ref>
In the book she sets out to "convince readers of the need for theories that allow for a good deal of human variation and that integrate the analytical powers of the biological and the social into the systematic analysis of human development."<ref name="Fausto=Sterling 2000 px">{{cite book |author=Fausto-Sterling, Anne |title=Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York |year=2000 |page=ix |isbn=0-465-07714-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780465077137/page/n12/mode/1up |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Fausto-Sterling married [[Paula Vogel]], a [[Yale University|Yale professor]] and [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer-winning playwright]], in 2004.{{r|NYT Wedding}}
She has served on the editorial board of the journal ''[[Perspectives in Biology and Medicine]]'' and on the advisory board of the feminist academic journal ''[[Signs (journal)|Signs]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives-biology-and-medicine/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board {{!}} JHU Press |website=www.press.jhu.edu |language=en |access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://signsjournal.org/about-signs/masthead/ |title=Masthead |date=2012-08-22 |work=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |access-date=2017-08-31 |language=en-US}}</ref>
She retired from Brown University in 2014, after 44 years on the faculty.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Riley |date=2014-04-23 |title=Fausto-Sterling retires, leaving legacy across disciplines |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/04/23/fausto-sterling-retires-leaving-legacy-across-disciplines/ |access-date=2021-06-12 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>