Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony

ISBN-13: 9780367348182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

Lena Eckert

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: “I am who I am and I’m proud of myself”  Section 1: The Clinic  Chapter 1. Pathologization and Surgery  Chapter 2. Gender Identity Limited  Chapter 3. From Five Sexes to n-sexes  Section 2: The Colony  Chapter 4. Seeing, hearing, translating  Chapter 5. Saving masculinity in cross-cultural intersexualization  Excursus: Bound to The Third?  Chapter 6. The fifth other  Conclusion  Index
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O autorze

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