October 2009
Oct 5, 2009 • 5:30PM - 7:00PM
What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day.
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NYAM Author Night Series: Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Location: New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), NYC 10029
Speakers: Elizabeth Reis
Speakers: Elizabeth Reis
What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day.
"A highly readable, novel, and interesting history on this topic. Bodies in Doubt helps readers see how the understanding of intersex has reflected contemporary cultural concerns about sex, abnormality, and civil society. It is not often you find a book that is so scholarly and yet so readable."
—Alice D.
Dreger, Northwestern University
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Registration: 5:30 – 6:00 PM
Program: 6:00 – 7:00 PM
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This event is free but advance registration is requested
Copies will be available for purchase.
Elizabeth Reis is an associate professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the History Department at the University of Oregon and author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England.
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