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Redick, Alison.

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American history XY: The medical treatment of intersex, 1916--1955.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American history XY: The medical treatment of intersex, 1916--1955./
Author:	Redick, Alison.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3430.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3146698
ISBN:	0496053264

American history XY: The medical treatment of intersex, 1916--1955.
Redick, Alison.

American history XY: The medical treatment of intersex, 1916--1955. - 328 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3430.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

This dissertation is a history of the medical management of intersex in the United States from 1916 to 1955. Beginning with the publication of Frank Lillie's watershed study on sex hormones in 1916, and ending with the development of a series of medical protocols for assigning genders to intersex infants in 1955, "American History XY" is the first comprehensive history of this period in intersex research. Hundreds of medical case studies were published during these decades, revealing a case by case treatment of intersex, which usually went undiagnosed until adolescence or early adulthood. When medical standards for treating hermaphroditism were created and implemented in the mid-1950s, they were conceived of as a corrective to treatment during this period, which I have called the "Era of Idiosyncrasy." The contemporary intersex management protocols, which were written by the psychologist John Money, redefined intersex as a social and medical emergency. Money introduced the term gender into the social science lexicon as a mechanism of control and consolidation, enabling practitioners to assign sex in infancy and eliminate physiological contradictions that carried the stigma of homosexuality.

ISBN: 0496053264Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

American history XY: The medical treatment of intersex, 1916--1955.
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520 $a This dissertation is a history of the medical management of intersex in the United States from 1916 to 1955. Beginning with the publication of Frank Lillie's watershed study on sex hormones in 1916, and ending with the development of a series of medical protocols for assigning genders to intersex infants in 1955, "American History XY" is the first comprehensive history of this period in intersex research. Hundreds of medical case studies were published during these decades, revealing a case by case treatment of intersex, which usually went undiagnosed until adolescence or early adulthood. When medical standards for treating hermaphroditism were created and implemented in the mid-1950s, they were conceived of as a corrective to treatment during this period, which I have called the "Era of Idiosyncrasy." The contemporary intersex management protocols, which were written by the psychologist John Money, redefined intersex as a social and medical emergency. Money introduced the term gender into the social science lexicon as a mechanism of control and consolidation, enabling practitioners to assign sex in infancy and eliminate physiological contradictions that carried the stigma of homosexuality.
520 $a In this study, I argue that the protocols were developed to contain gender, and represent the coalescence of medical technology, ideology, and psychiatric practices in mid-century America. Remarkably, despite the publication of several excellent studies on intersex in the past five years, no one has yet mapped out this material, or fully examined why the protocols were written in the U.S. in the mid-1950s. I situate the medical management of genital anomalies within the specific historical context of the U.S. in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, during which both endocrinology and psychiatry gained increasing credibility as medical subspecialties. In addition to collecting, documenting, and analyzing published case studies on intersex, I have conducted extensive archival research at the National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, and the Kinsey Institute. In "American History XY," I treat both sex and gender as historically constituted categories that reflect the interaction of medical and social discourses during the first half of the twentieth century.
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