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The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants
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“In a similar vein, Suzanne Kessler (1990), in her essay ' Medical Construction of Gender, ' suggests the ' backward ' logic in sex/gender relation.”
From Gender: Gendering of Categories (2015) · cites this paper as Kessler, 1990
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“When being confronted with the infants of ambiguous genital morphology, medical staff will be guided with the culturally conditioned image of gender in an attempt to attach the assumed ' natural ' sex.”
From Gender: Gendering of Categories (2015) · cites this paper as Kessler, 1990
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kessler, S. J.
- Corresponding author
- Kessler, Suzanne J.
- Venue
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1990-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-26
- ISSN
- 0097-9740 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6943
- OpenAlex
- W2009361241
- Cited by
- 478
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 1.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Signs (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Keywords
- intersex infants, gender construction, medicalization of gender, case management, gender assignment, gender identity
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- Kessler, S. J. (1990). The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1086/494643
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