Article: Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex.(Review)

Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. By Alice Domurat Dreger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 266 pages. Cloth, $35.00.

In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Domurat Dreger looks at the debates concerning intersexed people which circulated in the medical communities of France and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In so doing, Dreger has also offered insight into our own fin-de-siecle quandaries about the limits of the usefulness of the concepts of sex and gender as categorizations of human beings.

Then, as now, those who would shore up the intertwined social edifices of sexism and ...

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