%0 Journal Article %T Infancia, hormonas y g¨¦nero: un an¨¢lisis hist¨®rico de los discursos de la biotipolog¨ªa en Argentina en los a£¿os 1930 %A Rustoyburu %A Cecilia %J Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2012 %I Centro Latinoamericano de Sexualidad y Derechos Humanos %R 10.1590/S1984-64872012000500002 %X this article addresses european and north american hormone theories and the way those were received in the field of argentine bio-typology in the 1930's. it surveys a series of articles published in the journal anales de biotipolog¨ªa [annals of bio-typology], and one medical case history presented in archivos argentinos de pediatr¨ªa [argentine pediatrics archive]. focus is placed on girls' and boys' treatment, to inquire into the ways the medical-scientific field intervened in the construction of sexual difference, and on how certain social conceptions of gender mediated bio-medical practice. %K childhood %K endocrinology %K eugenics %K sexuality %K bio-typology. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1984-64872012000500002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en