Bryant, Karl Edward (Author)
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.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/10 (2008). Pub. no. AAT 3283645.
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