Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

Informationen zum Autor Alice Domurat Dreger Klappentext Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men construed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies - when combined with social exigencies - forced peculiar constructions. Throughout the book Dreger indicates how this history can help us to understand present-day conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality. In an epilogue, she discusses and questions the protocols employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born hermaphroditic). Given the history recounted, should these protocols be reconsidered and revised? Zusammenfassung Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them in late 19th-century France and England. It takes us inside the doctors’ chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgments * Prologue: But My Good Woman! You Are a Man! * Doubtful Sex * Doubtful Status * In Search of the Veritable Vulva * Hermaphrodites in Love * The Age of Gonads * Epilogue: Categorical Imperatives * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger, Dreger Alice Domurat
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780674001893
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00189-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, Surgery, MEDICAL / Surgery / General, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Gender studies, gender groups, Diseases and disorders, Psychology: sexual behaviour