What's in a Gland? Sexuality, Reproduction and the Prostate in Early Twentieth-Century Medicine (2020)
Björkman, Maria (Author)
Persson, Alma (Author)
Gender and History
Volume: 32
Issue: 3
Pages: 621-636
This article presents a case study about how norms relating to masculinity, sexuality and reproduction were produced in relation to the healthy, ailing, or aging prostate in early twentieth century medicine. It shows how the ailing prostate tied in with norms about healthy, abnormal or illicit sexual and reproductive practices. Engaging with insights from the history of medicine, feminist science studies, and men and masculinity studies, it highlights how the prostate became a diagnostic catch-all for a wide range of physical and mental conditions, producing demarcations between femininity and masculinity, manliness and unmanliness, health and illness, and moral and vice.
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