The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2014
- Category
- Gender Studies, Sexuality, History
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774827928
- Publish Date
- Jul 2014
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774827959
- Publish Date
- Jul 2014
- List Price
- $22.99
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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.