The Biopolitical Birth of Gender: Social Control, Hermaphroditism, and the New Sexual Apparatus
This article argues that gender was invented in the 1950s as a new sexual apparatus of biopower. Through a reading of mid-century sexological studies against the background of structural–functionalist and behaviorist theories of social order, it shows how gender was born in the clinic to discipline...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. - Lynne Rienner Publishers. - 38(2013), 3, Seite 228-244 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Alternatives: Global, Local, Political |
| Schlagworte: | Social sciences Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Philosophy Health sciences |
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