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The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money Contents Acknowledgments / ix Introduction: Sexual Behaviour in the Human / 3 1 Once a Brethren Boy: The Early Years / 16 2 Fixing Sex: Intersex / 39 3 Lovemaps: The Relationship World / 67 4 Man and Woman, Boy and Girl: Transsexuality / 89 5 Gay, Straight, and In-Between: Homosexuality / 114 6 The Edge of the Alphabet: Neologisms / 134 7 What Wild Ecstasy: Sexual Liberation, Pedophilia, and Pornography / 151 8 As Nature Made Him: The Reimer Case / 174 Conclusion: Venuses Penuses / 194 Works Cited / 214 Index / 228 Available at: PDFDRIVE.COM Search for: Terry Goldie (exact match) 2014 I had Googled "who invented gender" ... and got: "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, opening a new field of research in sexual science and giving currency to medical ideas about human sexuality." I thought that seemed reliable -- it was from the book The Man Who Invented Gender - Engaging the Ideas of John Money, By Terry Goldie - UBC Press From the book (which I downloaded later) "Money certainly considered himself to be the source of the concept of “gender.” As my discussion shows, however, Money might have just popularized a usage that already existed, at least in some small way." Ok -- the concept of "gender" may have existed before Money wrote about it. Haven't finished the book yet, but looks worth reading. He has a section on "pedophilia". See pp.7-8 of the book for some incredible semantic gyrations about "he did/didn't/kinda/sorta invented the concept of gender. Re Freud: Don't like most of his theories -- but I can't go into that now... M. |