Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

by Hil Malatino

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"Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how we can contest the pathologization of intersex and trans embodiment in order to develop ways of enacting gender otherwise to promote medical reform and human rights for intersex persons"--

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Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Politics and Government, LGBTQ+, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Science & Nature
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306.7601Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, DivorceSexual relationsSexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality
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HQ78 .M35Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenSexual life
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