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By Anne Fausto-Sterling. 485 pp., illustrated. New York, Basic Books, 2000. $35. ISBN 0-465-07713-7.

Poised to cast the deciding vote in a Salisbury, Connecticut, election in 1843, "Levi S." was charged with being a woman and therefore ineligible. A doctor found that Levi had a penis and therefore a vote. But later it was revealed that Levi also had a vagina and menstruated regularly. What to do? Today we may be amused at 19th century conundrums concerning an intersexual person in a society in which only men held the right to vote. But modern America still requires citizens to be either male or female, and the institution that enforces this dichotomy with respect to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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