Anne Fausto-Sterling

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 &amp; 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.
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.
Book Chapters.
She has also written other works like journal and online articles.