Gendermaps: Social Constructionism, Feminism and Sexosophical History (Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1474287867 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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. John Money was Professor of Paediatrics and Medical Psychology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
He argues that the nature vs nurture dichotomy should be abandoned in favour of a paradigm of nature/critical period/nurture. To understand masculine and feminine social and political history in the second half of the 20th century, one must first understand the lexical history of the term gender, which did not become an attribute of human beings until 1955 when John Money introduced the concept of gender role to refer to the masculine or feminine presentation of individuals whose genital organs, by reason of birth defect, were anatomically neither completely male or completely female, but hermaphroditic. The book further discusses how some gender differences are phylogenetically shared by all people and others are ontologically unique to an individual.. In this book, Money explores the history of gender differentiation and its impact on contemporary, postmodern social constructionist explanations of male and female
"In Gendermaps, Money discusses his sexological theory in the context of a challenging sociopolitical analysis of social constructionism and feminism. June M. John Money was one of my principal intellectual influences when I was writing Sexual Personae. This analysis makes this book a must read for social constructionists and feminists, as well as for professionals concerned with sexual abuse, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, sexual health, and related public policy."—Journal of Sex Research"Dr. He is the leading sexologist in the world today."—Camille Paglia"Perhaps no one since Freud has provided us with as rich a blend of biological and psychological fact, theory, and clinical material incisively integrated into an increasingly coherent picture of the origins of human experience."—Dr. John Money is the Duke of Dysfunction, a m
HOW WE GET OUR SEX-ROLES AND GENDER-PERSONALITIES James L. Park John MoneyGendermaps:Social Constructionism, Femininism, and Sexosophical History(New York: Continuum, 1995) 165 pages(ISBN: 0-8264-0854-4; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: HQ23.M588 1995) John Money's suggested new word "gendermap"includes two separable phenomena:(1) sex-roles--the observable behavior of men and womenassigned by each culture or sub-culture on the basis of sex,(2) gender-personality--the internal personality traitsconsidered either 'masculine' or 'feminine'within a given culture or sub-culture.Both of these human phenomena arise from socia