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
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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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.