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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... fact , doctors classify a large clitoris as a medical con- dition referred to as " clitoral megaly " or " clitoral hypertrophy . " Conversely , small penises for anatomical boys , are classified as a medical problem called " micropenis ...
... fact that these events coincided with my own research on intersex , I became aware of the important opportunity to speak with intersexuals about their ex- periences and perspectives firsthand . INTERVIEWING MEMBERS OF AN INVISIBLE ...
... fact , given the difficulty of identifying members of this population , it is not possible to get a truly representative sample . Rather , these organizations served as a stra- tegic and theoretically promising sampling base , given the ...
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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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