Bodies in doubt : an American history of intersex /
"What does it mean to be human? The answer, in part, is to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Hermaphrodites, monstrous births, and same-sex intimacy in early America
- From monsters to deceivers in the early nineteenth century
- The conflation of hermaphrodites and sexual perverts at the turn of the century
- Cutting the Gordian knot : gonads, marriage, and surgery in the 1920s and 1930s
- Psychology, John Money, and the gender of rearing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.