"Male Hysteria": A Discourse Analysis

Link-Heer, Ursula; Daniel, Jamie Owen

doi:10.2307/1354185

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“…The circuit court decision in Williams is a rare example of a critical response to Maines' factual claims. But this note of skepticism is absent from the four law review articles that drew heavily on Maines to analyze sex-toy litigation (Glover, 2010;Herald, 2004;Holt, 2001;Lindemann, 2006). 23 These articles, which began appearing in 2001, all provide detailed summaries of Technology of Orgasm, treating the book's conclusions as established fact.…”

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“…Just as male hysteria was initially 'discovered' in men who had been exposed to the traumas of industrial accidents or 'shell shock' (Link-Heer, 1990), men must become feminized in order to become anorexic. Probably the most persistently cited link is between MAN and homosexuality the emergence of which is seen as the significant and traumatic event that is required as the catalyst for men to develop AN.…”

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The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity

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2011

Health Sociology Review

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The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more fundamentally associated with femininity due to certain disciplinary changes in the psy sciences. The influential psychiatrist Hilde Bruch lamented the loss in clarity of the clinical picture that was the result of psychoanalytic interpretations, to remedy this she reformulated AN into a pathology that was the result of the individual being too determined by external influences. Bruch's changes increased the emphasis that psychiatrists placed on the relationship between women and their social context and the lack of individual autonomy that many felt. Feminist writers adapted Bruch's theory to suggest that patriarchal culture was colonizing the lives of women and that social rather than individual change needed to occur. Psychiatrists subsequently developed scales for assessing gender identity which switched the emphasis back onto individuals and rendered gender as an individualised, quantifiable, manipulable object. When reified and individualised in this fashion it became more legitimate to discuss femininity as causative of, and masculinity as a protection against, AN.

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Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies

Eng¹

2005

A Companion to Asian American Studies

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The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity

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