1963: The coining of "gender identity"
 

Robert Stoller "introduced the term 'gender identity' to the International Psychoanalytic Congress at Stockholm in 1963. He formulated the concept of gender identity within the framework of the biology/culture distinction, such that sex was related to biology (hormones, genes, nervous system, morphology) and gender was related to culture (psychology, sociology)"
 
Mol here is quoting Donna Haraway's "Gender for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word" (1991)
 
this "made it possible to talk about a person's 'gender' irrespective of the biological 'sex' of her/his body" (Mol, 20)
 
Note that Haraway warns "that feminists who fight biological determinism in a dichotomizing way, one that puts the body's 'sex' in a safe domain before starting to discuss a person's 'gender,' leave biology unanalyzed" (Mol's summation, 22)

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #timeline, #biology, #gender, #culture

> created February 13, 2021 at 4:25:52 PM


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