Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-208) and index.
Contents
Hermaphrodites, monstrous births, and same-sex intimacy in early America -- From monsters to deceivers in the early nineteenth century -- The conflation of hermaphrodites and sexual perverts at the turn of the century -- Cutting the Gordian knot : gonads, marriage, and surgery in the 1920s and 1930s -- Psychology, John Money, and the gender of rearing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.