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Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome by Anthony Corbeill (Hardcover, 2015)

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Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled. how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate.

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From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society int