04466nam 2200733Ia 450 991081045910332120240416150558.00-674-03433-310.4159/9780674034334(CKB)1000000000786724(DLC)97040487(StDuBDS)AH23050672(SSID)ssj0000170510(PQKBManifestationID)11165389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170510(PQKBWorkID)10223778(PQKB)11319864(Au-PeEL)EBL3300278(CaPaEBR)ebr10314289(OCoLC)923110311(DE-B1597)574516(DE-B1597)9780674034334(MiAaPQ)EBC3300278(OCoLC)1294423439(EXLCZ)99100000000078672419970904d1998 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrHermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex /Alice Domurat Dreger1st ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press19981 online resource (xiii, 268 p. ) illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-08927-8 0-674-00189-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-261) and index.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 -- IndexPunctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites suggested a deeper question: just how many human sexes are there? Ultimately hermaphrodites led doctors and scientists to another surprisingly difficult question: what is sex, really? Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed 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. This leads to an epilogue, where the author discusses and questions the protocols employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born hermaphroditic). Given the history she has recounted, should these protocols be reconsidered and revised? A meticulously researched account of a fascinating problem in the history of medicine, this book will compel the attention of historians, physicians, medical ethicists, intersexuals themselves, and anyone interested in the meanings and foundations of sexual identity.IntersexualityTreatmentFranceHistory19th centuryIntersexualityTreatmentGreat BritainHistory19th centuryIntersexualityTreatmentFranceHistory20th centuryIntersexualityTreatmentGreat BritainHistory20th centuryIntersexualityTreatmentUnited StatesIntersexualityPsychological aspectsSex (Psychology)IntersexualityTreatmentHistoryIntersexualityTreatmentHistoryIntersexualityTreatmentHistoryIntersexualityTreatmentHistoryIntersexualityTreatmentIntersexualityPsychological aspects.Sex (Psychology)616.694Dreger Alice Domurat1703043MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810459103321Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex4087972UNINA