RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The subjective cut: sex reassignment surgery in 1960s and 1970s science fiction
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP e20
OP e25
DO 10.1136/medhum-2016-010968
VO 42
IS 4
A1 Karin Sellberg
YR 2016
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/42/4/e20.abstract
AB 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 (1921–2006) 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.