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Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis (Paperback, 2012)

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What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet t 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 colonial period to the present day. From the beginning, intersex bodies have been marked as other, as monstrous, sinister, threatening, inferior, and unfortunate. Some nineteenth-century doctors viewed their intersex patients with disrespect and suspicion. Later, doctors showed more empathy for their patients' plights and tried to make correct decisions regarding their care. Yet definitions of correct in matters of intersex were entangled with shifting ideas and tensions about what was natural and rmal, indeed about what constituted personhood or humanity.Reis has examined hundreds of cases of hermaphroditism and intersex found in medical and popular literature and argues that medical practice cant be understood outside of the broader cultural context in which it is embedded. As the history of responses to intersex bodies has shown, doctors are influenced by social concerns about marriage and heterosexuality. Bodies in Doubt considers how Americans have interpreted and handled ambiguous bodies, how the criteria and the authority for judging bodies changed, how both the binary gender ideal and the anxiety over uncertainty persisted, and how the process for defining the very rms of sex and gender evolved. Bodies in Doubt breaks new ground in examining the historical roots of modern attitudes about intersex in the United States and will interest scholars and researchers in disability studies, social history, gender studies, and the history of medicine.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421405830
ISBN-13
9781421405834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111534545

Product Key Features

Author
Elizabeth Reis
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine: General
Type
Textbook

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Weight
340g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Spine
15mm
Content Note
15 Halftones, Black and White
Author Biography
Elizabeth Reis is an associate professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department and the History Department at the University of Oregon and author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England.
Date of Publication
17/01/2012
Genre
Medicine: General
Country of Publication
United States

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