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Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis /
"When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to "protect" the development of her gender identity; it was years befo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "you're in the monkey cage with me"
- The transformation of intersex advocacy
- Medical jurisdiction and the intersex body
- The power in a name
- A different kind of information
- Conclusion: the dubious diagnosis.