Fixing Sex : Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience /

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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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
S.
medecine > organe sexuel > sexe (genre) > determination.
chirurgie > organe sexuel > sexe (genre) > difference.
hermaphrodisme.
identite > sexe (genre)
transsexualisme.
androgynie.
Geschlechtsidentität
Intersexualität
Intersexuality > Social aspects.
Intersexuality.
Intersex children.
Gender identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Sexuality.
sex role.
Enfants intersexues.
Identite sexuelle.
Gender Identity
Disorders of Sex Development > surgery
Disorders of Sex Development > psychology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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