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Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience / Katrina Karkazis.

By: Publication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 365 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780822343028 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822343029 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822343189 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822343185 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.6/94 22
LOC classification:
  • QP267 .K37 2008
Contents:
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.

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.

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