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Fixing sex

intersex, medical authority, and lived experience

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An edition of Fixing sex (2008)

Fixing sex

intersex, medical authority, and lived experience

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  • 1 Want to read

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 are "too small" for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant's genitalia. Over the past decade intersex advocates have mounted unprecedented challenges to treatment, offering alternative perspectives about the meaning and appropriate medical response to intersexuality and driving the field of those who treat intersex conditions into a deep crisis.

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Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
365

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Subjects

Intersexuality, Hermaphroditism, Psychology, Social aspects, Gender identity, Intersex children, Surgery, Gender Identity, Intersex people, Disorders of Sex Development, LGBTQ biology
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Cover of: Fixing Sex
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
2008, Duke University Press
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Cover of: Fixing sex
Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience
2008, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Fixing Sex
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
2008, Duke University Press
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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
The intersex body in the world: activism and social and medical change.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Durham, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.6/94
Library of Congress
QP267 .K37 2008, QP267.K37 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
365

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16727970M
ISBN 13
9780822343028, 9780822343189
LCCN
2008013531
OCLC/WorldCat
214300082
Wikidata
Q17002192, Q57233386
LibraryThing
6762530
Goodreads
4817123

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Work ID
OL11903763W

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