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From: huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Gender Blending_
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Date: 28 Feb 90 21:55:45 GMT
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In article <1661@ariel.unm.edu>, bevans@gauss.unm.edu (Mathemagician) writes:
> In article <1990Feb8.162125.20758@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
> holstege@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Mary Holstege) writes:
>> What is interesting to me is how often my husband is taken as female *when he
>> is with me*.  What I think is going on is that he is somewhat shorter than
> 
> This has, on more than one occassion, happened to me and I, too, don't
> fit the "feminine" stereotype except regarding my hair (I have [make that
> 
>> Do they talk in this book about this sort of effect?


I got the book and read it this weekend.  It's pretty interesting.  No
it doesn't talk about men being mistaken for women at all.  The author
has focussed her investigation on women who are mistaken for men.  She
has some interesting diagrams in the summary chapter describing a
model for how sex, "sex identity", gender identity, and gender
attribution all support each other in most individuals.  She also has
some MES-like (only more cautiously worded) suggestions about future
directions we might take.

I'm donating my copy to the Kansas City gender dysphoria support
group.  I think anyone interested in gender issues would find the book
quite fascinating.  In general, I like her (social) model.  The
biological theories of gender have never been satisfying to me.

Another interesting book I've just read (not really related to
feminism) is _Our Kind_, by Marvin Harris.  It's really anthropology
for the masses, but I like his critique of the sociobiologists.

-- 
Kathryn Huxtable
huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu