Rezension zu Schnittmuster des Geschlechts
Sexuality & Culture 12, 2008
Rezension von David Pricket
»The title of Rainer Herrn’s book plays upon the interaction of
clothing, sex- correction surgery, and the emergence of collective
and individual gender identities. Focusing on Berlin at the height
of modernity (1900–1930), Herrn provides a convincing elucidation
of the process of differentiation between homosexuals,
transvestites and transsexuals.«
»Volkmar Sigusch, former head of the now defunct Institute for
Sexual Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in
Frankfurt/Main, penned the volume’s forward.«
»While Sigusch questions both the state of body-altering surgery
and the objectivity of today’s doctor-patient relationships, Herrn
presents historical causalities neutrally and straightforwardly.
Herrn takes a teleological approach; however, he is careful not to
generalize. The study is intended to fill the gaps in research on
the theoretical differentiation of transvestites from sexual
pathologies, Hirschfeld’s sexual-scientific conception of
transvestitism, and its reception in both the transvestite and the
scientific communities.«
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