Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience

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

What happens when a baby is born with "ambiguous" genitalia or a combination of "male" and "female" body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises a...

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Main Author: Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
S.
Intersexuality
Gender identity
Intersexuality > Social aspects.
Intersex children
Intersexuality > Social aspects
Sex assigned at birth
Intersex genital mutilation
Medicalisation
Geschlechtsidentität
Hermaphroditismus
Intersexualität
androgynie.
transsexualisme.
identité > sexe (genre)
hermaphrodisme.
chirurgie > organe sexuel > sexe (genre) > différence.
médecine > organe sexuel > sexe (genre) > détermination.
Disorders of Sex Development > psychology
Disorders of Sex Development > surgery
Gender Identity
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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