Eckert Intersexualization

The Clinic and the Colony
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-27410-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities

The book takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting point to explore the issue of determining sex, and the ways in which intersexuality as a "threat" to the distinction between men/women, homosexuality/heterosexuality and white/black, causes medical controversy and emotional as well as political and cultural turmoil.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eckert, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Clinic 1. Pathologization and Surgery 2. Essentialization of Gender Identity 3. Feminist Biology and the Five Sexes The Colony 4. Clinicalizing the Other 5. Colonizing the Other 6. Excursus: Bound to The Third? 7. The Fifth Other. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Lena Eckert is Assistant Professor in the Media Faculty at Bauhaus-University Weimar.