Fixing Sex Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Name: Fixing Sex Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
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ISBN: 9780822343189

ISBN-10: 0822343185

ISBN-13: 9780822343189

Edition: 2008

Authors: Katrina Karkazis

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Drawing extensively on interviews with adults with intersex conditions, parents, and physicians, this text moves beyond the heated rhetoric to reveal the complex reality of how intersexuality is understood, treated, and experienced.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.21" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



What is Intersexuality? History and Theory



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



Making Decisions for and About a Baby with an Intersex Diagnosis



Boy or Girl? Bodies of Mixed Evidence and Gender Assignment



Fixing Sex: Surgery and the Production of Normative Sexuality



Living the Medicalized Body



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


Notes


References


Index