The Man Who Invented Gender
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Terry Goldie
About this book
In 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term “gender” in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. Money’s work broke new ground and gave currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. As an ardent advocate for sexual liberation, he became something of a fixture in the popular imagination.
This book cuts through Money’s talent for polemic and self-promotion by digging into the substance of Money’s theories and achievements. It offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of this pioneering scholar’s writing to assess Money’s profound impact on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Through his analysis, Goldie recovers Money’s brilliance and insight from simplistic dismissals of his work due to his involvement in the tragic David Reimer case, while never losing sight of his flaws.
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In The Man Who Invented Gender, Terry Goldie performs an insightful, rich, and well-researched investigation into the life and legacy of John Money. This engaging book complicates and humanizes the much-maligned sexologist, and documents the multiple and varied shifts in public and academic reception that his research on gender and sexuality underwent over and beyond his lifetime.
Paul Fedoroff, Director of the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Group and co-editor of Ethical Dilemmas: Sexuality and Developmental Disability:
Professor John Money was as controversial as he was influential in his field of Sexology. Terry Goldie has managed to capture the academic and personal impact that Money exerted on our concepts of gender, sex, and love. It is possible to argue for Money or against Money but no one should argue about Money before reading this book. Highly recommended.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Once a Brethren Boy
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Fixing Sex
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Lovemaps
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Man and Woman, Boy and Girl
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Gay, Straight, and In-Between
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The Edge of the Alphabet
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What Wild Ecstasy
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As Nature Made Him
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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