The subjective cut: sex reassignment surgery in 1960s and 1970s science fiction

Medical Humanities 42 (4):e20-e25 (2016)
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This article considers the way in which ethical concerns about sex reassignment surgery and especially the research and clinical practice of the sexologist Dr John Money is being negotiated in the 1960s and 1970s novels Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal and The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter. Drawing on the theories of gender and embodiment developed by Money, the article reads the novels as a critical response and discursive interaction with emergent sexological concepts.

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10.1136/medhum-2016-010968

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Critical Theory and Science Fiction.Carl Freedman - 2001 - Utopian Studies 12 (1):180-182.
Angela Carter: The Rational Glass.Aidan Day - 1999 - Utopian Studies 10 (2):226-227.

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