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Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience  Cover Image Book Book

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

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  • ISBN: 9780822343028 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0822343029 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780822343189 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0822343185 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 365 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-342) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Intersexuality.
Gender identity.
Intersexuality > Social aspects.
Intersex children.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library QP 267 .K37 2008 30538384 General Collection Available -


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