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Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Karkazis, Katrina

Paperback

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0822343185
ISBN13: 9780822343189
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 11 2008
Pages: 384
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
What happens when a baby is born with ambiguous genitalia or a combination of male and female body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are too small for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant's genitalia. Over the past decade intersex advocates have mounted unprecedented challenges to treatment, offering alternative perspectives about the meaning and appropriate medical response to intersexuality and driving the field of those who treat intersex conditions into a deep crisis. Katrina Karkazis offers a nuanced, compassionate picture of these charged issues in Fixing Sex, the first book to examine contemporary controversies over the medical management of intersexuality in the United States from the multiple perspectives of those most intimately involved.

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