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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

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Columbia University Libraries