PDF-(READ)-Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

What does it mean to be human To be human is in part to be physically sexed and culturally gendered Yet not 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 dayFrom the beginning intersex bodies have been marked as other as monstrous sinister threatening inferior and unfortunate Some nineteenthcentury 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 normal indeed about what constituted personhood or humanityReis has examined hundreds of cases of hermaphroditism and intersex found in medical and popular literature and argues that medical practice cannot 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 norms of sex and gender evolvedBodies 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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