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Aug 12, 2010 · Stoller was sympathetic to the request for sex change. He credited a biological contribution to the development of masculinity and femininity. Both stances were remarkable for a psychoanalyst.
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Stoller was sympathetic to the request for sex change. He credited a biological contribution to the development of masculinity and femininity. Both stances were remarkable for a psychoanalyst.
Stoller was sympathetic to the request for sex change. He credited a biological contribution to the development of masculinity and femininity. Both stances were remarkable for a psychoanalyst.
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- 2010
In 1968, Stoller wrote Sex and Gender, where he hypothesized "The sense of core gender identity...is derived from three sources: the anatomy and physiology of the genitalia; the attitudes of parents, siblings and peers toward the child's gender role; and a biological force that may more or less modify the attitudinal (environmental) forces."
Stoller’s work entrenched sex and gender into the biology/culture binary, where biology and culture represented two separate, but causally linked, orders of knowledge. The chapter shows how the sex/gender binary operated to control biology (sex) through culture (gender).
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Abstract. By its title, Sex and Gender announced a concep-tual breakthrough in distinguishing basic elements of human experience. In Robert Stoller’s first book, patients illustrating this divergence were lucidly presented. Transvestites and the newly publicized transsexuals were two examples.