How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea Eder Sandra
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social…
Specifikacia How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea Eder Sandra
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is lesser known: Gender was first used in clinical practice. This book tells the story of the invention of gender in American medicine, detailing how it was shaped by mid-twentieth-century American notions of culture, personality, and social engineering.Sandra Eder shows how the concept of gender transformed from a pragmatic tool in the sex assignment of children with intersex traits in the 1950s to an essential category in clinics for transgender individuals in the 1960s. Following gender outside the clinic, she reconstructs the variable ways feminists integrated gender into their
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