Malatino, Hilary,

Queer embodiment : monstrosity, medical violence, and intersex experience / Hilary Malatino. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Queer monsters: Michel Foucault and Herculine Barbin -- Impossible existences : intersex and "disorders of sex development" -- Gone, missing : queering and racializing absence in trans and intersex archives -- Black bar, queer gaze : medical photography and the re-visioning of queer corporealities -- State science : biopolitics and the medicalization of gender nonconformance -- Toward coalition: becoming, monstrosity, and sexed embodiment.

"Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how we can contest the pathologization of intersex and trans embodiment in order to develop ways of enacting gender otherwise to promote medical reform and human rights for intersex persons"--



9781496213716 9781496213730


Intersex people--Identity.
Human body--Social aspects.
Queer theory.


Electronic Books.

HQ78 / .Q447 2019