The Female Man (S.F. MASTERWORKS): Joanna Russ

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Female (left) and male (right) genitals are developed from the same bundle of tissue. The clitoris is homologous to the penis and the labia majora are homologous to the scrotum. Peelen, M. J., Kazemier, B. M., Ravelli, A. C., De Groot, C. J., Van Der Post, J. A., Mol, B. W., … & Kok, M. (2016). Impact of fetal gender on the risk of preterm birth, a national cohort study. Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica, 95(9), 1034-1041.

Gardiner, Judith Kegan (1994). "Empathic Ways of Reading: Narcissism, Cultural Politics, and Russ's "Female Man" ". Feminist Studies. 20 (1): 87–111. doi: 10.2307/3178434. ISSN 0046-3663. JSTOR 3178434. Many human societies believe that genitals should be hidden. For this reason, people call them private parts. This attitude has resulted in public indecency laws which make it a crime for genitals to be left uncovered in public except in special places called nudist colonies. The scientific name for the sex organs is genitalia or genitals. They are also commonly called the reproductive organs. The genitals include both organs that can be seen on the outside of the body (the primary genitalia or external genitalia), as well as internal organs (the secondary genitalia or internal genitalia). Sometimes, however, the words genitalia or genitals are used to refer only to the external sex organs. The sex organs are informally referred to as the private parts or privates. Family and societal pressure: it's not just economic concerns that parents worry about: surveys also reveal persistent pressures from family members and communities. In interviews, women often note pressures from female in-laws and husbands, verbal and physical abuse when they didn't produce a son or were pregnant with a girl. 72Cortiel, Jeanne (November 2018). "Risk and Feminist Utopia: Radicalizing the Future". American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 77 (5): 1353–1376. doi: 10.1111/ajes.12252. ISSN 0002-9246. S2CID 149746139.

The chart shows that for all major causes of death, mortality is higher in boys. The sex differences in the causes of infant deaths were already documented almost a century ago: in an impressive paper published in 1929, Bawkin explores the mortality sex ratio of specific diseases from countries across the world. 10Young boys can have erections, but their bodies do not start producing sperm until they have reached puberty. This usually happens when they are in their teens. Prenatal sex selection (PSS) relies on two technologies: prenatal sex determination (the ability to determine the sex of a foetus during pregnancy) and selective abortion. It's estimated that today there are over 130 million 'missing women' in the world as a result of selective abortion and excess female deaths.