ISBN10: 1479887048, ISBN13: 9781479887040, [publisher: NYU Press 2015-09-11] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 1479887048, ISBN13: 9781479887040, [publisher: New York University Press Sep 2015] Softcover Neuware - Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to “protect†the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis‿ experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex. Yet, the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality, rather than as a mere biological variation. This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatment. In Contesting Intersex, Davis draws on interviews with intersex people, their parents, and ...
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