Katrina Karkazis

Fixing Sex

Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343028
• ISBN-10: 0822343029
• Artikelnr.: 23881037

Autorenporträt

Katrina Karkazis

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. What is Intersexuality? History and Theory
1. Taxonomies of Intersexuality to the 1950s 31
2. Complicating Sex, Routinizing Intervention: The Development of the
Traditional Treatment Paradigm 47
3. From Socialization to Hardwire: Challenges to the Traditional Treatment
Paradigm 63
Part 2. Making Decisions For and About a Baby with an Intersex Diagnosis
4. Boy or Girl? Bodies of Mixed Evidence and Gender Assignment 89
5. Fixing Sex: Surgery and the Production of Normative Sexuality 133
Part 3. Living the Medicalized Body
6. Waning and Deciding What is Best: Parents' Experiences 179
7. Growing Up under the Medical Gaze 216
8. The Intersex Body in the World: Activism and Social and Medical Change
236
Notes 291
References 321
Index 343