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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... female and male bodies are actually on more of a continuum rather than a dichotomy . The criteria for what counts as female or male , or sexually ambiguous for that matter , are human standards . That is , bodies 2 INTERSEX AND IDENTITY ...
... females and males . Some are born with genitalia that are difficult to characterize as clearly female or male . Others have sex chromosomes that are neither XX nor XY , but some other combination , such as X , XXY , or chromosomes that ...
The Contested Self Sharon E. Preves. female reproductive organs , and later in life went through a physically uneventful female puberty . Claire's experience illustrates that having a large clitoris is perceived as a physical trait ...
... Female Are Not Enough . " 12 After reading this article , I was compelled to address several questions that remained unanswered , the foremost of which was , " What is the experience for individuals who were born sexually ambiguous and ...
... female to male , and three from male to female . In 51 percent of the sample , intersexuality was apparent at birth or in infancy due to genital ambiguity ; for 49 percent intersexuality was not apparent until puberty . The sample was ...
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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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