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Author: Catherine Harper
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: English Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.7

ISBN: 1845201833
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19669400922
EAN: 9781845201838
ASIN: 1845201833

Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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•	Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

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Product Description
DIVDIVIIntersex/I is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common as cleft palate. Like cleft palate, it is hidden and surgically altered, but for very different reasons. This important book draws heavily on the personal testimony of intersexed individuals, their loved ones, and medical careers. The impact of early sex-assignment surgery on an individual's later life is examined within the context of ethical and clinical questions. Harper challenges the conventional and radical 'treatment' of intersexuality through non-consensual infant sex-assignment surgery. In doing so she exposes powerful myths, taboos, and constructions of gender - the perfect phallus, a bi-polar model of gender and the infallibility of medical decisions. Handling sensitive material with care, this book deepens our understanding of a condition that has itself only been medically understood in recent years./DIV/DIV

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DIVDIVIIntersex/I is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true "hermaphrodite" to the "mildly or internally intersexed," the condition may be as common as cleft palate. This book draws heavily on the personal testimony of intersexed individuals, their loved ones, and medical cases. Harper challenges the conventional and radical "treatment" of intersexuality through non-consensual infant sex-assignment surgery. In doing so she exposes powerful myths, taboos, and constructions of gender and the infallibility of medical decisions. /DIV/DIV

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