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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... born with bodies that are deemed sexually ambiguous , and with regularity they are surgically altered to reflect the sexual anatomy associated with " standard " fe- male or male sex assignment . There are numerous ways to respond to ...
... born annually in the United States , a conservative estimate is that about two to four thousand babies are born per year in this country with features of their anatomy that vary from the physical characteristics typically associated ...
... born sexually ambiguous . My research methods were geared toward gleaning a deep understanding of these individuals ' experiences and lives . Such depth of understanding is commonly achieved through qualitative life history research ...
... born sexually ambiguous and medically assigned to a category of female or male ? " 13 As I began to formulate a topic for my class research assignment , I focused first on families ' involvement with sex assign- ment decisions . For ...
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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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