Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex

Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex

Walker, Megan

Hardcover

General DramaGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030914747
ISBN13: 9783030914745
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 25 2022
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This edited collection interrogates how social and cultural representations of individuals with intersex variations impact how they are understood and treated from legal and medical perspectives across the world. Contributors consider how novelists, filmmakers, artists, and medical professionals have represented people with intersex variations, and highlight the importance of ethical representation and autonomy to encourage wider cultural and medical knowledge of intersex variations as a naturally occurring phenomenon. The text also examines the ways in which individuals with intersex variations are represented and viewed in India, Italy, Pakistan and Israel, as well as how this impacts decision making for the individuals, families and medical providers. This book argues that reactions to intersex variations will not change unless they are no longer presented as treatable disorders. It positions representation at the forefront, shifting the emphasis away from a concern for maintaining gender norms to upholding the human rights of intersex people.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Walker, Megan

View All

Also in

General Sociology

View All