Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional,
and transnational lens. Intersex Matters analyzes the medicalization
of people diagnosed as "intersex," which is an umbrella term for
individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be
nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly,
political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth century to the
present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation of atypical sex is
fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and an intersectional and
transnational one as well. Critical attention to intersex lives,
bodies, narratives, and activisms profoundly reconfigures contemporary
paradigms of sex/gender, race, health, normality, biopolitics, and
human rights. Rubin charts the emergence of intersex rights activism
in the global north and global south, thus demonstrating the value of
understanding intersex experience when rethinking the vicissitudes of
body politics in a globally interconnected world.
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Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781438467566
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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