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A. I. Belkin, head of the laboratory of neuro-endocrinology at Moscow’s Research Institute of Psychiatry, is primarily an endocrinologist. His work with hermaphrodites is a side-line (or, as he described it to me in a personal interview, his ‘hobby’!)1 Much has been written on the treatment of hermaphrodites in the West, and a brief review of the Western approach will provide a context for Belkin’s work.
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5 Sex-change in the USSR: A. I. Belkin’s Theory of Gender Development and his Treatment of Hermaphrodites
J. Money and A. A. Ehrhardt, Man and Woman, Boy and Girl (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972) p. 61.
Cited by J. G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire (London: The Women’s Press, 1980) p. 6.
J. G. Raymond, ‘Transsexualism: an Issue of Sex-role Stereotyping’, in E. Tobach and B. RosoFf (eds), Genes and Gender II (New York: Gordon Press, 1979) p. 131.
R. J. Stoller, Sex and Gender, (London: Hogarth Press, 1968) p. 37.
A. I. Belkin and V. N. Lakusta, Biologicheskaya terapiya psikhicheskikh zabolevanii (Kishinev, 1983) pp. 123–7.
See also the foreword of Belkin (ed.), Gormony i mozg (Moscow, 1979) pp. 8–9.
M. S. Rosenhan, ‘Images of Male and Female in Children’s Readers’, in D. Atkinson, A. Dallin and G. W. Lapidus (eds), Women in Russia (London: Harvester Press, 1978)
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Attwood, L. (1990). Sex-change in the USSR: A. I. Belkin’s Theory of Gender Development and his Treatment of Hermaphrodites. In: The New Soviet Man and Woman. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21030-5_6
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