Sharon E Preves

Intersex and Identity

The Contested Self

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Approximately one in every two thousand infants born in America each year is sexually ambiguous in such a way that doctors cannot immediately determine the child’s sex. Some children’s chromosomal sexuality contradicts their sexual characteristics. Others have the physical traits of both sexes, or of neither. Is surgical intervention or sex assignment of intersexed children necessary for their physical and psychological health, as the medical and mental health communities largely assume? Should parents raise sexually ambiguous children as one gender or another and keep them ignorant of their medical history?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780813532295
• ISBN-10: 0813532299
• Artikelnr.: 21898179

Autorenporträt

Sharon E. Preves

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Beyond Pink and Blue
2 Medical Sex Assignment
3 Stigma, Secrecy, and Shame
4 Seeds of Change
5 Intersex Pride
6 Implications of Intersex Mobilization
7 Methodological Appendix
Notes
Glossary
References
Index