Hermaphrodites And The Medical Invention Of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
A historical study of 19th-century European cases of people labeled “hermaphrodites,” it shows how physicians, anatomists, and courts shifted the determination of “true sex” from social role and visible anatomy to the primacy of gonads, cementing a rigid binary and expanding medical authority over identity and bodies. Through case records, legal disputes, and surgical interventions, it traces the mechanisms of sex assignment, the ethical and personal costs for those subjected to them, and the origins of modern assumptions that still influence intersex treatment and debates today.
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- 1998
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