Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022618661X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. “We see here critical sexuality studies confronting the work of the most influential of modern sexologists, John Money. Downing, Morland, and Sullivan do that admirably, identifying the casual contradictions and unpacking the constitutive tensions in Money’s thinking.”
He backed surgical treatments for transsexuality, but argued that gender roles were set by reproductive capacity. The result is a comprehensive collection of new insights for researchers and students within cultural, historical, and gender studies, as well as for practitioners and activists in sexology, psychology, and patient rights.. One of the twentieth century’s most controversial sexologistsor fuckologists,” to use his own memorable termJohn Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. He pioneered drug therapy for sex offenders, yet took an ambivalent stance towards pedophilia. In his most publicized case study, Money oversaw the reassignment of David Reimer as female following a circumcision accident in infancy. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet fought its uptake by feminists. The book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, hermaphroditism,” transsexualism,” and paraphilia,” but also addresses his lesser-known work on topics ranging from animal behavior to the philosophy of science. He shaped the treatmen
"Better than the title implies" according to Greg Lehne. Despite the title, this book is interesting and has a lot to offer. I expected it to be a hatchet job by some lit crit people, but it actually is thoughtful in discussing the work of Dr. Money. Sometimes they get as caught up in obtuse terminology as does Dr. Money, but it is still generally readable.