Intersexuality and the Law : Why Sex Matters /

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Overview: The term "intersex" evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex condition, or DSD (disorder of sex development), are men or women whose sex chromosomes, gon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenberg, Julie A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Intersexues > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Intersex people > United States > Social conditions.
Intersex people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Intersexuality > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Surgical and hormonal creation of the binary sex model
  • Who has the right to choose my sex and genitalia?
  • Legal reinforcement of gender norms
  • Can I marry a man, woman, either, or neither?
  • What's in a name?
  • Where may I live and which bathroom do I use?
  • Developing strategies
  • The history and development of the intersex movement
  • Conflicts among social justice movements with common concerns
  • Legal frameworks.

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