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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... a Group , " New York Times , 1996 95 8. Headline , " New Debate Over Surgery On Genitals , " New York Times , 1997 98 9. Phall - O - Meter 139 Acknowledgments I began this project as a young graduate student ix Illustrations.
... genital , or hormone features that could be considered " intersexed " ; that is , children born with ambiguous genitalia , sexual organs , or sex chromosomes . Additional estimates report the frequency of this sexual variance as compris ...
... 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 vary throughout the cells of their ...
... genital surgery that might be experienced by the patient . About the after effects of her surgery , Claire said , They just took the clitoris out and then whip stitched the hood together , so it's sort of an odd - looking thing . I don ...
... genital ambiguity ; for 49 percent intersexuality was not apparent until puberty . The sample was exceedingly well educated , in that all are high school graduates and 96 percent have at least some college education . Seventy - eight ...
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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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