Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes Reprint Edition

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Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes Reprint Edition

Author(s): Gerald N. Callahan (author) (Author)

  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2016
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 208 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1613736541
  • ISBN-13: 9781613736548

Book Description

Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains the science of intersex conditions—such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome—and includes personal interviews with people telling their surprising and often heart-wrenching stories. Even doctors and scientists are not entirely sure if external genitalia, internal sex organs, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination define a person’s sex, but this examination shows that sex is not an either-or proposition. There are babies born XYY, XXX, or with any dozen or more known variations in the X or Y chromosomes. The history of intersex conditions as well as the options that are available today for the ambiguous child are covered in this captivating account.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This book takes readers through an alphabet of gender and gender variations. Callahan shows readers that rather than either/or scenarios, there have always been variations; his book shatters our society’s take on pink and blue.” –Advocate

“Callahan does a good job of exploring intersex individuals, who are neither male nor female, and argues that they need to be accepted for what they are and not viewed as defective.” —Publishers Weekly

“Callahan’s writing style is both accessible and engaging; it reads more like creative non-fiction, a la Malcolm Gladwell.” —Ms. Magazine

“Immunologist Callahan takes a fascinating look at the biology and human experience of intersexuality, a state in between male and female.” —Discover Magazine

“The book is really beautifully written, highly accessible, and visionary in its own right.” —Feministing

“There are lots of interesting nuggets here–for example, Callahan’s description of biological sex as a spectrum, not a binary system.” —Double X

“This is a fascinating, easily understandable journey into why we are born male or female and examines our age-old obsession with sex.” —Fort Collins Coloradoan

About the Author

Gerald N. Callahan, PH.D is an immunologist and pathologist with more than thirty years of experience in biomedical research. He is the author of Infection: The Uninvited Universe and Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception. He is currently a professor at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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