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Intersex Matters
David A. Rubin
其他書名
Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
出版
State University of New York Press
, 2017-09-28
主題
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
1438467567
9781438467566
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pJc3DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.