Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex / Alice Domurat Dreger.

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Dreger, Alice Domurat

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674034334
0674034333

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex.DDC classification:

616.6/94 21

LOC classification:

RC883 .D695 1998eb

NLM classification:

1998 G-471
WJ 11.1

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44.74

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE "But My Good Woman) You Are a Man!" -- CHAPTER 1 Doubtful Sex -- CHAPTER 2 Doubtful Status -- CHAPTER 3 In Search of the Veritable Vulva -- CHAPTER 4 Hermaphrodites in Love -- CHAPTER 5 The Age of Gonads -- EPILOGUE Categorical Imperatives -- Notes -- Index

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Review: "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?"--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-261) and index.

"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?"--Jacket.

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