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It would be a serious oversight to begin an issue of a French e-journal (albeit in English studies) devoted to gender without saying a word about the varying fortunes and reception of the term itself in French and English-speaking contexts. It is generally said that sexologist John Money was the fi...

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Главный автор: Meschia, Karen
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Miranda 2016
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Итог:It would be a serious oversight to begin an issue of a French e-journal (albeit in English studies) devoted to gender without saying a word about the varying fortunes and reception of the term itself in French and English-speaking contexts. It is generally said that sexologist John Money was the first to propose this terminological distinction between biological and social sex in 1955 (in fact to study sexual indeterminacy), but it was not until the 1970s that English-speaking feminist theor...