Karkazis Fixing Sex

Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8921-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten

A history about infants that are born intersex--with a combination of "male" and "female" chromosomal, gonadal, and genital characteristics--and how these cases are managed and treated within the United States from 1955 to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karkazis, Katrina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Endokrinologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part 1. What is Intersexuality? History and Theory

1. Taxonomies of Intersexuality to the 1950s 31

2. Complicating Sex, Routinizing Intervention: The Development of the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 47

3. From Socialization to Hardwire: Challenges to the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 63

Part 2. Making Decisions For and About a Baby with an Intersex Diagnosis

4. Boy or Girl? Bodies of Mixed Evidence and Gender Assignment 89

5. Fixing Sex: Surgery and the Production of Normative Sexuality 133

Part 3. Living the Medicalized Body

6. Waning and Deciding What is Best: Parents' Experiences 179

7. Growing Up under the Medical Gaze 216

8. The Intersex Body in the World: Activism and Social and Medical Change 236

Notes 291

References 321

Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Katrina Karkazis is a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University.