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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... children . After my initial introduc- tion to the subject in a course on gender and science , I wanted to know more . I wanted to know how people experience and cope with sexual difference in a culture that demands sexual conformity ...
... 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 up in this manner countless number of times before . Within moments , the children were quiet and ...
... children are born with bodies considered appropriate for genital re- construction surgery because they do not conform to socially accepted norms of sexual anatomy . Moreover , nearly 2 percent are born with chromosome , gonad , genital ...
... doubt a challenge to one's identity development and stability . This is especially true for children whose bodies render traditional gender classification ineffective , for there is seemingly no place 4 INTERSEX AND IDENTITY Chapter.
... children , and found nothing . I examined research litera- ture in social work , psychology , and sociology and found neither information about families and intersex , nor information about intersex as a social cat- egory . Then I went ...
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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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