LEADER 04466nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910810459103321 005 20240416150558.0 010 $a0-674-03433-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674034334 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786724 035 $a(DLC)97040487 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050672 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165389 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223778 035 $a(PQKB)11319864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314289 035 $a(OCoLC)923110311 035 $a(DE-B1597)574516 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674034334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300278 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423439 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786724 100 $a19970904d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex /$fAlice Domurat Dreger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 268 p. ) $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-08927-8 311 $a0-674-00189-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-261) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tILLUSTRATIONS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPROLOGUE "But My Good Woman) You Are a Man!" -- $tCHAPTER 1 Doubtful Sex -- $tCHAPTER 2 Doubtful Status -- $tCHAPTER 3 In Search of the Veritable Vulva -- $tCHAPTER 4 Hermaphrodites in Love -- $tCHAPTER 5 The Age of Gonads -- $tEPILOGUE Categorical Imperatives -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aPunctuated 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. 606 $aIntersexuality$xTreatment$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIntersexuality$xTreatment$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIntersexuality$xTreatment$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntersexuality$xTreatment$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntersexuality$xTreatment$zUnited States 606 $aIntersexuality$xPsychological aspects 606 $aSex (Psychology) 615 0$aIntersexuality$xTreatment$xHistory 615 0$aIntersexuality$xTreatment$xHistory 615 0$aIntersexuality$xTreatment$xHistory 615 0$aIntersexuality$xTreatment$xHistory 615 0$aIntersexuality$xTreatment 615 0$aIntersexuality$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aSex (Psychology) 676 $a616.694 700 $aDreger$b Alice Domurat$01703043 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810459103321 996 $aHermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex$94087972 997 $aUNINA