Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900

Benninghaus, Christina

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01700.x

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“…This transformation in mumps came about as male infertility became an element of the 'collective imagination', as Christina Benninghaus notes, one commonly cast as a medical condition. 57 This stood in contrast to women's infertility, which, as Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner argue, was just as often cast as a social condition, a personal flaw with no medical cure. 58 The medical characterisation of male infertility was partly due to the popular advent of bacteriology.…”

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Of Mumps and Men: Masculinity and the Severity of a Vaccine Preventable Disease in Western Medicine, 1760s–1960s

Conis

2022

Gender & History

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This article, based on an analysis of English language medical literature on mumps' manifestation in men, women and children from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examines the role of gender in shaping conceptualisations of mumps' severity and medical significance. Over time, gendered social roles undermined the medical notion of mumps as a severe disease of women while elevating mumps' reputation as a severe and significant disease of men, eventually casting the disease as a threat to masculinity. When the modern mumps vaccine was commercialised in the 1960s, its development built on a long history of gendered conceptualisations of mumps and its use cast children as safeguards of a legacy of masculine citizenship defined by military activity and fatherhood.

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Of Mumps and Men: Masculinity and the Severity of a Vaccine Preventable Disease in Western Medicine, 1760s–1960s

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2022

Gender & History

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Surrogacy Globalscape

Saravanan¹

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A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India

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Carrier

2017

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This article focuses on notions of gender in psychiatrists' expert opinions written for lawsuits during the German Empire, 1871-1914. Four different narratives concerning gender can be identified in these testimonies. On the one hand, the reports describe women and men who did not conform to the gender stereotypes of the time. The psychiatrists found the non-conformist defendants to be of unsound mind. On the other hand, women and men who did conform to the gender stereotypes were also described. In those cases, however, "feminine" women were certified insane, whereas "masculine" men were accused of simulating a mental disease in order to avoid punishment. These findings strengthen basic assumptions of Feminist Epistemology by showing that first, psychiatric ideas of accountability were closely linked to the norm of "masculine" men and second, a double standard was used in assessing the soundness of minds of women and men respectively.

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Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900

Cited by 91 publications

References 16 publications

Of Mumps and Men: Masculinity and the Severity of a Vaccine Preventable Disease in Western Medicine, 1760s–1960s

Of Mumps and Men: Masculinity and the Severity of a Vaccine Preventable Disease in Western Medicine, 1760s–1960s

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