Here you will find the English translation of the introduction of the book:
MAKING SEX REVISITED: DECONSTRUCTING SEX/GENDER FROM A BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW
Author: Heinz-Jürgen Voss, www.heinzjuergenvoss.de
Short description: Judith Butler once critiqued binary approaches to biological sex on the level of the interpretation of signs, thus avoiding a discussion of actually existing organic structures and their possible binarity. By contrast, the following contribution is concerned with historical and contemporary biological theories about such structures. Tracing theories of preformation and epigenetics, “Making Sex Revisited” demonstrates that a focus on processes of evolution and differentiation leads to pluri-sexual approaches to biological sex. Organic structures develop individually and vary when various individuals are compared. The predominance of binary interpretations results from the distinction between two sexes and their unequal treatment, still prevalent in society.
German full text version:
Making Sex Revisited:
Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag
2010, 3rd ed. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1329-2
Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839413296