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 andtherefore ineligible. A doctor found that Levi had a penis andtherefore a vote. But later it was revealed that Levi also hada vagina and menstruated regularly. What to do? Today we maybe amused at 19th century conundrums concerning an intersexualperson in a society in which only men held the right to vote.But modern America still requires citizens to be either maleor female, and the institution that enforces this dichotomywith respect to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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