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Intersex Narratives Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture Viola Amato
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amato, Viola <p>Viola Amato, Germany</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Queer Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersex.
- Autobiography.
- Popular Culture.
- Medicine.
- Gender.
- Body.
- Queer Theory.
- Feminism.
- Activism.
- Sexuality.
- Gender Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Intersex.
- Autobiography.
- Popular Culture.
- Medicine.
- Gender.
- Body.
- Queer Theory.
- Feminism.
- Activism.
- Sexuality.
- Gender Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Amato, Intersex Narratives Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Viola Amato (deceased in 2017) earned her PhD in North American Literature and Culture from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focused on queer movements, social class, and higher education in neoliberalism.
- Summary:
- This book explores representations of intersex – intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category – in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies.Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.
- »Eine wichtige Archiv-Studie, deren Aufarbeitungscharakter den Ansprüchen des Gegenstandes an eine sensible Analyse [...] gerecht wird.«
- »Interesting and reliable.«
- »A groundbreaking study that clearly closes a research gap in American Studies.It is particularly Amatos rootedness in poststructuralist theories of sex and gender and her awareness of the indebtedness of academic discourse to the largely underrepresented history of the intersexmovement that lets the better-known intersexnarratives appear in a new light and provides a new ground for nuanced future readings of intersex narratives.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Approaching Intersex 29 3. The Intersex Movement of the 1990s 55 4. Challenging Dominant Narratives From Within 103 5. Reimagining Intersex Literary Renegotiations of the Dis/Continuities between Hegemonic Narratives and the Recognition of 'Difference' 159 6. Screening Intersex at Prime Time Intersex in/as a State of Emergency and Popular Culture's Un/Acceptable Interventions 241 7. "We Exist, We Are Human, We Are Everywhere among You" 295 Bibliography 305
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839434192
- 383943419X
- OCLC:
- 938788600
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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