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Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience /

A history about infants that are born intersex--with a combination of "male" and "female" chromosomal, gonadal, and genital characteristics--and how these cases are managed and treated within the United States from 1955 to the present

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:Duke backfile
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Taxonomies of intersexuality to the 1950s
  • Complicating sex, routinizing intervention : the development of the traditional treatment paradigm
  • From socialization to hardwire : challenges to the traditional treatment paradigm
  • Boy or girl? : bodies of mixed evidence and gender assignment
  • Fixing sex : surgery and the production of normative sexuality
  • Wanting and deciding what is best : parents' experiences
  • Growing up under the medical gaze : adults' experiences
  • The intersex body in the world : activism and social and medical change.