Description: How the Clinic Made Gender : The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, Hardcover by Eder, Sandra, ISBN 022657332X, ISBN-13 9780226573328, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 theories and practices in the 1970s. The process by which ideas about gender became medicalized, enforced, and popularized was messy, and the route by which gender came to be understood and applied through the treatment of patients with intersex traits was fraught and contested. In historicizing the emergence of the sex/gender binary, Eder reveals the role of medical practice in developing a transformative idea and the interdependence between practice and wider social norms that inform the attitudes of physicians and researchers. She shows that ideas like gender can take on a life of their own and may be used to question the normative perceptions they were based on. Illuminating and deeply researched, th closes a notable gap in the history of gender and will inspire current debates on the relationship between social norms and medical practice.
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Book Title: How the Clinic Made Gender : The Medical History of a Transformat
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: How the Clinic Made Gender : the Medical History of a Transformative Idea
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Sociology / General, History
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sandra Eder
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
