In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts

The article investigates the origin and development of the concepts of ‘sex’ in the sense used in the sex-gender debate. It analyses medical and surgical texts from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The main thesis is that the biological meaning of ‘sex’ was an effect of surgical interventio...

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Main Author: Maximilian Schochow
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2010-04-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3870
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spelling doaj-fb107e24ff0d4082985edfa0a07786f22021-03-18T20:47:02ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2010-04-0121110.25365/oezg-2010-21-1-2In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen GeschlechtsMaximilian Schochow0Institut für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig The article investigates the origin and development of the concepts of ‘sex’ in the sense used in the sex-gender debate. It analyses medical and surgical texts from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The main thesis is that the biological meaning of ‘sex’ was an effect of surgical interventions on herm-aphroditical bodies. In this context it becomes clear that until the end of the 18th century a phenotypical concept of ‘sex’ predominated. After the invention of hermaphroditical bodies the meaning of ‘sex’ changed into an organical, gonadic system. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3870hermaphroditesurgical interventionone-sex and two-sex theory
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author Maximilian Schochow
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In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
hermaphrodite
surgical intervention
one-sex and two-sex theory
author_facet Maximilian Schochow
author_sort Maximilian Schochow
title In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
title_short In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
title_full In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
title_fullStr In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
title_full_unstemmed In den Leib geschnitten Produktionsformen des biologischen Geschlechts
title_sort in den leib geschnitten produktionsformen des biologischen geschlechts
publisher StudienVerlag
series Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
issn 1016-765X
2707-966X
publishDate 2010-04-01
description The article investigates the origin and development of the concepts of ‘sex’ in the sense used in the sex-gender debate. It analyses medical and surgical texts from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The main thesis is that the biological meaning of ‘sex’ was an effect of surgical interventions on herm-aphroditical bodies. In this context it becomes clear that until the end of the 18th century a phenotypical concept of ‘sex’ predominated. After the invention of hermaphroditical bodies the meaning of ‘sex’ changed into an organical, gonadic system.
topic hermaphrodite
surgical intervention
one-sex and two-sex theory
url https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3870
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