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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... identity : the contested self / Sharon E. Preves . p . cm . ISBN 0-8135-3228–0 ( cloth ) — ISBN 0-8135–3229–9 ( pbk . ) 1. Hermaphroditism - Psychological aspects . 2. Hermaphroditism - Social aspects . 3. Gender identity - Social ...
... 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 . So , I set out in search of answers . I had no idea that during the ...
... gender . Most of us have been taught that sex is anatomical and gender is social . What's more , many of us have never had the occasion to explore our gender or sexual identities , because neither has given us cause for reflection ...
... gender and sexuality , despite the sexual pleasure it could have given Claire and her future sexual partners . In ... identity development and stability . This is especially true for children whose bodies render traditional gender ...
... identity , one's basic sense of place and self , is a challenge for many of us , and is potentially far more challenging for people whose sex is called into question . The social expectation for gender stability and conformity is ...
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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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