The way people talk about sexual health, pleasure, and dysfunction has changed dramatically over time, but it's still influenced by various factors such as cultural context, personal experiences, and...
Historically, medical and psychiatric discourses have often pathologized queer identities and behaviors. This has had significant consequences for individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, leading to...
Historical Medical Discourse
Medicine is a field that has evolved over time to become more advanced than it once was.
There are still some aspects of medicine that have yet to fully catch up...
The historical roots of modern understanding of gender identity are often traced back to John Money's work in the mid-20th century, which classified gender into three categories - male, female, and...
How do legal and medical discourses around hormone therapy reinforce normative understandings of gender?
The term "gender" refers to a socially constructed system of behaviors, roles, and...
Historical Medical Discourse
Historically, medicine has pathologized queer identities through the creation of a false dichotomy between normal/abnormal, healthy/unhealthy, and...
As human societies have progressed and developed, so too have their understandings of gender identity and expression. In ancient times, people may have seen gender as something fixed at birth and...
The history of human societies is intertwined with the idea that some forms of sexual expression are deviant from an assumed normative standard and therefore undesirable. This conceptualization of...