In Captivity of the Body: Inter(sexuality) in the First Half of the 20th Century

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://theatrum.upce.cz/index.php/theatrum/article/view/2461" target="_blank" >https://theatrum.upce.cz/index.php/theatrum/article/view/2461</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/th.2023.31.05" target="_blank" >10.46585/th.2023.31.05</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

In Captivity of the Body: Inter(sexuality) in the First Half of the 20th Century

Original language description

The paper focuses on the issue of intersexuality in the Czech medical discourse during the first half of the 20th century, when the term “intersex”, which is officially used today and distinct from intersexuality, did not yet exist. Intersexuality can be understood as a universal category within which doctors linked various other issues, such as hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, and homosexuality. Doctors attempted to label the variability of the human body, but were heavily influenced by their own ideas of the “ideal” male and female body and unable to think beyond these binary categories. The sources were the novel by Emil Tréval, which deals with the issue of hermaphroditism. The second example focuses on a real case of patient A. H., who identified themself as a man, although they were born with a female biological body. Doctors labelled him as homosexual and transvestite, which we now consider incorrect from today&apos;s perspective.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theatrum historiae

ISSN

1802-2502

e-ISSN

2571-0621

Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

31

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

97-119

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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