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Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-

Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience / Katrina Karkazis. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - xiii, 365 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-342) and index.

Taxonomies of intersexuality to the 1950s -- Complicating sex, routinizing intervention : the development of the traditional treatment paradigm -- From socialization to hardwire : challenges to the traditional treatment paradigm -- Boy or girl? : bodies of mixed evidence and gender assignment -- Fixing sex : surgery and the production of normative sexuality -- Wanting and deciding what is best : parents' experiences -- Growing up under the medical gaze : adults' experiences -- The intersex body in the world : activism and social and medical change.

ISBN: 9780822343028 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822343029 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822343189 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822343185 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008013531

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA8A5755 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101469642 DNLM 014708421 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intersexuality.
Gender identity.
Intersexuality--Social aspects.
Intersex children.

LC Class. No.: QP267 / .K37 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 616.6/94