Intersex Matters
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Intersex Matters

Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Intersex Matters

Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism

About this book

Intersex Matters analyzes the medicalization of people diagnosed as "intersex, " which is an umbrella term for individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth century to the present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation of atypical sex is fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and an intersectional and transnational one as well. Critical attention to intersex lives, bodies, narratives, and activisms profoundly reconfigures contemporary paradigms of sex/gender, race, health, normality, biopolitics, and human rights. Rubin charts the emergence of intersex rights activism in the global north and global south, thus demonstrating the value of understanding intersex experience when rethinking the vicissitudes of body politics in a globally interconnected world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 “An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender
  8. Chapter 2 Intersex Trouble in Feminist Studies
  9. Chapter 3 “Stigma and Trauma, Not Gender”: A Genealogy of US Intersex Activism
  10. Chapter 4 Provincializing Intersex: Transnational Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Body Politics
  11. Chapter 5 Intersectionality and Intersex in Transnational Times
  12. Conclusion Thinking Intersex Otherwise: Disorders of Sex Development, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Uncertainty
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Back Cover