Bodies in doubt
Subtitle: an American history of intersex
By: Elizabeth Reis.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801891557
Subjects: Intersexuality -- United States -- History; Gender identity -- United States -- History; Intersex people -- Identity -- Social aspects -- United States; Hermaphroditism -- history -- United States; Gender Identity -- United States; Health Policy -- history -- United States; History, Modern 1601- -- United States; Social Conditions -- history -- United States; Transsexualism -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hermaphrodites, monstrous births, and same-sex intimacy in early America; title: From monsters to deceivers : early 19th century; title: The conflation of hermaphrodites and sexual perverts at the turn of the century; title: Cutting the gordian knot : gonads, marriage, and surgery 1920s and 1930s; title: Psychology, john money, and the gender of rearing 1940s, 1950s, 1960s.