• PUBLISHED on April 11, 2013
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Radio conversation with Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling about her new book Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World on WOMR radio in Provincetown, MA. Listen here!

• PUBLISHED on March 28, 2013
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by Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling Posted: 03/27/2013 11:41 am Original article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-anne-fausto-sterling/the-war-over-math-and-reading_b_2950792.html There is a simmering war (of words) about boys, girls, math, reading and why fewer women become scientists or technology experts. Sometimes, as with then-Harvard president Lawrence Summer’s 2005 remark that “there is reasonably strong evidence of taste differences [with regard to becoming engineers] [...]

• PUBLISHED on March 22, 2013
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Click here to read the original post: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/3378/32/ In 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, science journalist Maia Weinstock ’99 had a vision of planetary scientist Carolyn Porco as a Lego figurine. “How cool would it be to make minifigs” (as these things are known to Legophiles) “of current well-known scientists and science popularizers?” Weinstock thought. A longtime [...]

• PUBLISHED on January 11, 2013
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Anne Fausto-Sterling, Biologiste américaine, Historienne des sciences et militiante féministe, Professeure de Biologie et d’études de genre à l’Université Brown (Providence – Rhode Island), intervient à propos de son dernier essai : – “Corps en tous genres : la dualité des sexes à l’épreuve de la science” (La découverte, octobre 2012) – Ce livre vient [...]

• PUBLISHED on December 26, 2012
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Posted: 06/21/2012 12:18 pm Female sexuality: when asked to explain it, Freud threw up his hands in despair. Virginia Masters and William Johnson reported on it in The Human Sexual Response, studied it in action and declared it — physiologically — to be pretty much the same as men’s (except for those multiple orgasms). Embryologists [...]