Intersex Narratives
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Intersex Narratives

Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture

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eBook - PDF

Intersex Narratives

Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. Approaching Intersex: Conceptual and Theoretical Framework
  6. 3. The Intersex Movement of the 1990s: Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence
  7. 4. Challenging Dominant Narratives From Within: Autobiography as a Critical Reflection on the Paradigm Shift in Intersex Narra ives
  8. 5. Reimagining Intersex: Literary Renegotiations of the Dis/Continuities between Hegemonic Narratives and the Recognition of ‘Difference’
  9. 6. Screening Intersex at Prime Time: Intersex in/as a State of Emergency and Popular Culture’s Un/Acceptable Interventions
  10. 7. “We Exist, We Are Human, We Are Everywhere among You”: A Conclusion
  11. Bibliography