Intersex and Identity: The Contested SelfRutgers University Press, 2003 - Всего страниц: 213 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? Drawing upon life history interviews with adults who were treated for intersexuality as children, Sharon E. Preves explores how such individuals experience and cope with being labeled sexual deviants in a society that demands sexual conformity. Preves frames their stories within a sociological discussion of gender, the history of intersex medicalization, the recent political mobilization of intersexed adults, and the implications of their activism on identity negotiation, medical practice, and cultural norms. By demonstrating how intersexed people manage and create their own identities, often in conflict with their medical diagnosis, Preves argues that medical intervention into intersexuality often creates, rather than mitigates, the stigma these people suffer. |
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... attempted to bring the busy group to order quickly . How did they go about doing so ? They told the children to form two lines : one for girls and the other for boys . The children did so seamlessly because they had been asked to line ...
... attempting to correct or erase sexual variation . That we have done so is evidence of the regularity with which sexual variation occurs . Melanie Blackless and colleagues suggest that the total frequency of nongenital sexual variation ...
... attempt to understand how intersexuals experience and cope with their marginality in a society that demands sexual conformity , I turned to them directly for answers . In the end , I interviewed thirty - seven individuals through- out ...
... attempt to inform and reshape existing theory on intersex clinical management , using the technique of the extended case method suggested by Michael Burawoy.14 In the traditional use of this method , I reevaluate an existing theory via ...
... attempt to con- form or pass as normal . I evaluate Goffman's work on identity management as it relates to the negotiation of the self , with special regard for potentially stigmatized individuals.15 In the interview guide , I also ...
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Seeds of Change | 87 |
Intersex Pride | 125 |
Chapter 6 | 144 |
Chapter 7 | 159 |
Notes | 173 |
Glossary | 189 |
Index | 207 |
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