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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... culture that demands sexual conformity . So , I set out in search of answers . I had no idea that during the process of my research , I would encounter the beginnings of a social movement and witness firsthand the impact of this ...
... Culture and History . David Myers is an exceptionally enthusiastic and dedicated editor . His encouragement , timely feedback , insightful comments , and reviewer's sugges- tions helped give this book its shape . I also thank the ...
... cultural diversity fieldtrip with twenty - two sec- ond graders in St. Paul , Minnesota . When I arrived at their school , the kids were squirrelly with anticipation . They were a colorful and varied bunch— some were tall and thin ...
... culture , such indifference is rare if not nonexistent . Instead , interference with sex and gender norms are cast as a major disturbance to social order , and people go to remarkable lengths to eradicate threats to the norm , even ...
... cultures are structured by gender , successful participation in society's organizations and per- sonal relationships ... culture . In an attempt to understand how intersexuals experience and cope with their marginality in a society that ...
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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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