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

Title
Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex / Alice Domurat Dreger.
Author
Dreger, Alice Domurat.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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xiii, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"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?"--BOOK JACKET.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-261) and index.
ISBN
0674089278 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97040487
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries