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Social Science Gender Studies

The Man Who Invented Gender

Engaging the Ideas of John Money

by (author) Terry Goldie

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2014
Category
Gender Studies, Sexuality, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774827928
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774827959
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $22.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774827935
    Publish Date
    Oct 2014
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

A controversial figure, innovative scholar, and ardent advocate for sexual liberation, sexologist John Money opened a new field of research in sexual science and gave currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. This book 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. The author 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.

About the author

Terry Goldie is the author of the memoir queersexlife (Arsenal Pulp Press) and the editor of the anthology In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenal Pulp Press). His other books include Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction (Broadview 2003), and Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen`s, 1989). He is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literature with particular interest in gay studies and literary theory.

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