The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender - Hardcover

Rothblatt, Martine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 051759997X ISBN 13: 9780517599976

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Rothblatt (Bioethics Subcommittee of the International Bar Association) makes a case for the adoption of a new sexual model that accommodates every shade of gender identity. She discusses legal and scientific aspects of sex and sex roles, compares sexual segregation and gay, straight, and transgender equality to racial apartheid and the civil rights movement, and proposes a chromatic scale of shades of gender difference. The appendix offers an International Bill of Gender Rights. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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From the Back Cover:

Dividing people according to gender is as pernicious and nonsensical as racial apartheid. In this bold and provocative manifesto, Martine Rothblatt shows clearly that traditional male and female roles are defined neither by genetics, nor genitals, nor biology, but by social attitudes. These constricting roles cause utter misery to countless people, and must be swept away in favour of a radical continuum of gender and sexuality.

"'The Apartheid of Sex' is a groundbreaking book. Rothblatt makes a reasoned call to dismantle a two-sex system. She would replace it with one of multiple sexes and sexuality. Both her biological and her sociological analyses are sound. Read this book and you will glimpse a possible future in which people place themselves on a continuum of sex and gender. Some will find this vision threatening, others will experience it as liberating and exhilarating."
PROFESSOR ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING, Author of 'Myth and Gender'

"This provocative treatise may eventually take its place beside the classic feminist works of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer."
THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

About the Author:

Martine Rothblatt is the Vice-Chair of the Bioethics Subcommittee of the International Bar Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 051759997X
• ISBN 13: 9780517599976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178