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Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience / Katrina A. Karkazis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersexuality.
- Gender identity.
- Intersexuality--Social aspects.
- Intersex children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A history about infants that are born intersex--with a combination of "male" and "female" chromosomal, gonadal, and genital characteristics--and how these cases are managed and treated within the United States from 1955 to the present.
- Contents:
- Taxonomies of intersexuality to the 1950s
- Complicating sex, routinizing intervention: the development of the traditional treatment paradigm
- From socialization to hardwire: challenges to the traditional treatment paradigm
- Boy or girl? bodies of mixed evidence and gender assignment
- Fixing sex: surgery and the production of normative sexuality
- Wanting and deciding what is best: parents' experiences
- Growing up under the medical gaze
- The intersex body in the world: activism and social and medical change.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022851
- 9780822343189
- 0822343185
- 9781283022859
- 1283022850
- OCLC:
- 1110276345
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