Fixing sex
intersex, medical authority, and lived experience
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Author
Publication
2008 - Duke University Press, Durham, N.C, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
91,250 words, Guess
Page Count
365 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefixingsexinterse0000kark
- ISBN-139780822343028
- ISBN-139780822343189
- ISBN-100822343029
- ISBN-100822343185
and 7 more
- Goodreads4817123
- WikidataQ17002192', 'Q57233386
- Library of Congress Control Number2008013531
- OCLC Control Number214300082
- Better World Books9780822343189
- Better World Books9780822343028
- Open LibraryOL16727970M
Classifications
- DDC616.6/94
- LCCQP267 .K37 2008
- LCCQP267.K37 2008
Description
What happens when a baby is born with "ambiguous" genitalia or a combination of "male" and "female" body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are "too small" for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant's genitalia. Over the past decade intersex advocates have mounted unprecedented challenges to treatment, offering alternative perspectives about the meaning and appropriate medical response to intersexuality and driving the field of those who treat intersex conditions into a deep crisis.
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