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Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Lisa Downing
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Description for Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Paperback. One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists, John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. This book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, "hermaphroditism," "transsexualism," and "paraphilia". Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 167 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists - or "fuckologists," to use his own memorable term - John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet fought its uptake by feminists. He backed surgical treatments for transsexuality, but argued that gender roles were set by reproductive capacity. He shaped the treatment of intersex, advocating experimental sex changes for children with ambiguous genitalia. He pioneered drug therapy for sex offenders, yet took an ambivalent stance towards pedophilia. ... Read more
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists - or "fuckologists," to use his own memorable term - John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet fought its uptake by feminists. He backed surgical treatments for transsexuality, but argued that gender roles were set by reproductive capacity. He shaped the treatment of intersex, advocating experimental sex changes for children with ambiguous genitalia. He pioneered drug therapy for sex offenders, yet took an ambivalent stance towards pedophilia. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226186610
SKU
V9780226186610
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About Lisa Downing
Lisa Downing is professor of French discourses of sexuality at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Iain Morland has published many scholarly essays on the ethics, psychology, and politics of intersex. Nikki Sullivan is an honorary researcher in the Department of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.
Reviews for Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
"We see here critical sexuality studies confronting the work of the most influential of modern sexologists, John Money. The point is not to dismiss sexology - that has been done too often and too quickly in queer studies - but to engage with it in a sustained, scholarly manner. Downing, Morland, and Sullivan do that admirably, ... Read more