Discursive intersexions : daring bodies between myth, medicine, and memoir / Michaela Koch.

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  • Daring bodies between myth, medicine, and memoir
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  • RC883
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Contents:
Introduction : facing the octopus -- At a glance I : hermaphrodite history -- Truth or dare : the memoirs of Herculine Barbin -- N.O. Body and the making of a true man -- At a glance II : intersex history -- Facts and figures of speech in science and activism -- Hermaphroditus and Middlesex : novel interpretations of old myth -- Intersex in pieces : Thea Hillman refuses to know better -- Conclusion : teaching the octopus -- Appendix : Bodies beyond the binary in books and movies : an anglophone chronology -- Bibliography.
Subject: Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Oldenburg, 2016.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : facing the octopus -- At a glance I : hermaphrodite history -- Truth or dare : the memoirs of Herculine Barbin -- N.O. Body and the making of a true man -- At a glance II : intersex history -- Facts and figures of speech in science and activism -- Hermaphroditus and Middlesex : novel interpretations of old myth -- Intersex in pieces : Thea Hillman refuses to know better -- Conclusion : teaching the octopus -- Appendix : Bodies beyond the binary in books and movies : an anglophone chronology -- Bibliography.

Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions.

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