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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... patients , I would say the first thing is [ to ] put the intersex person in touch with other people who are intersexed . Number two is see number one . And number three is see number one . That's it . Doctors think that you're going to ...
... 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't know what they were hoping to preserve ...
... patients who undergo medical intervention . In addition , most research in this area has been either case study research or quan- titative in nature . These studies are valuable and have contributed significantly to the fields of gender ...
... patient narratives and came up dry . When I finally turned to the medical literature , I hit the proverbial jackpot ... patients or families about the so- cial experiences and outcomes of these medical procedures . However , around 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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