Thesis ID: CBB001561305

The Politics of Pathology and the Making of Gender Identity Disorder (2007)

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Bryant, Karl Edward (Author)


University of California, Santa Barbara
Schneider, Beth


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Advisor: Schneider, Beth
Physical Details: 306 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation is a historical case study of the construction of and debates over the psychiatric diagnosis Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GIDC). Based on an analysis of GIDC research and clinical literatures, archival materials, interviews with GIDC clinician-researchers and their critics, and fieldwork at professional and advocacy meetings, this dissertation traces the initial construction of gender variant children as a medicopsychological "problem," the 1980 formalization of the GIDC diagnosis, and the continuing debates over its legitimacy up to the present. My dissertation shows the ways in which debates over GIDC have been one key site for theorizing the relationship between gender and sexuality. Additionally, while stakeholders in debates over the legitimacy of GIDC have generally been understood as adversaries, I show how both GIDC defenders and GIDC critics work within a common framework based on the discursive, material and historical conditions from which GIDC was produced. Based on these findings, I discuss the limitations of current critiques of GIDC, and suggest new directions for future advocacy and research.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/10 (2008). Pub. no. AAT 3283645.


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Authors & Contributors
Sharman Levinson
Stéphanie Pache
Moore, Alison M.
Vincenti, Denise
Galle, Sara
Michael Pfeiffer
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Sexuality
Psychology
Gender identity
Pathology
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
France
United States
Edinburgh
Zurich (Switzerland)
Germany
Institutions
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Collège de France, Paris
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