Language, gender and biopolitics : meaning-making and intersex variations in healthcare / Brian W. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Brian W., 1971- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in language, gender and sexuality

Cambridge elements. Elements in language, gender and sexuality, 2634-8772

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intersex people--Health and hygiene--China--Hong Kong.

Intersex people.

Physician and patient--China--Hong Kong.

Physician and patient.

Power (Social sciences)--China--Hong Kong.

Power (Social sciences).

Sociolinguistics--China--Hong Kong.

Sociolinguistics.

China.

China--Hong Kong.

Physical Description:

1 online resource,

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This text examines language, power and intersex variations within clinician accounts in Hong Kong, examining how they communicate about intersex traits to patients and their families. The research analyses clinician interviews as dynamic social interactions, focusing on how communicative stances are negotiated and social practices are enacted.

"This Element examines language, power and intersex variations within clinician accounts in Hong Kong, examining how they communicate about intersex traits to patients and their families. Employing interactional sociolinguistics, the research analyses clinician interviews as dynamic social interactions, focusing on how communicative stances are negotiated and social practices are enacted. The Element probes the influence of biopower on clinicians' stances (encompassing gender, sexual difference, racialization and ableism) and explores the possibilities of emancipation from these biopolitical constraints. Findings highlight the tension between medical structuring forces and the formation of intersex subjects and bodies, impacting their autonomy and livability. Gender is relevant as both a power system and a lived reality, critical for understanding the bioregulation of innate sex characteristics and advancing broader implications for gender and language studies and healthcare communication. This research challenges gender-sceptical discourses and highlights the transformative potential of gender frameworks in medical and social contexts"-- Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Intersex history and lived experience

Biopolitics and gender in sociolinguistics

Research context, design and method

Crafting bodies : biopower, gender and intersex variations

Crafting subjects : biopower, gender and the good parent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed February 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: King, Brian W., 1971- Language, gender and biopolitics

ISBN:

9781009202503

1009202502

OCLC:

1572418928

Publisher Number:

CIPO000335731

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license