THE FIVE SEXES

The Five Sexes



The Five Sexes

In her article, The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are not Enough, Anne Fausto-Sterling sketches out her arguments and reasons relating to why the two within society and medically accepted (dominant) sexual categories distinctiveness are not enough in recognizing the sex of every person. In nearly all contemporary societies commonly recognize as “normal” the two evident sexes: the female and the male, the one recognized by containing testicle and a penis in the physical logic and a Y-chromosome in the sense of genetics, at the same time as the other ...