Swarr Envisioning African Intersex

Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2424-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Amanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swarr, Amanda Lock

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains 1
Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies
1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: “Hermaphroditism” in Histories of South Africa 23
2. “Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban”: Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine 49
Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions
3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism 73
4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya’s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing 102
5. Toward an “African Intersex Reference of Intelligence”: Directions in Intersex Organizing 132
Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex 156
Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross 161
Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya 163
Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020) 165
Notes 171
References 207
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Lock Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, author of Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa, and coeditor of Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis.