La réception ambiguë du terme de genre dans la gestion médicale de l'intersexuation en France (1955-1975)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the reception of the term gender within the medical sphere before its feminist reappropriation, as well as its use as a psychological concept serving the medical regulation of (inter)sexual bodies. By tracing an intellectual history of the concept - from its birth in the United States of the 1950s, to its importation, application and interpretation in France, among the medical and psychological teams specialized in the management of intersex people -, the author examines the ways gender has crossed the Atlantic. By identifying its discursive and practical translations, she shows how this concept constitutes a key to the early normalization of atypical sex.