000			04217cam a2200409Ii 4500
001			ocn922640606
003			OCoLC
005			20240726104959.0
008			151001t20152015nyua ob 001 0 eng d
010			_a2015009606
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dJSTOR _dCUS _dEBLCP _dYDXCP _dVLB _dWAU _dIOG _dRRP _dU3W _dUUM _dINT _dOCLCQ _dG3B _dIGB _dSTF _dUKAHL _dOCLCQ _dDEGRU _dUX1 _dUHL _dP@U _dINARC _dOCLCO
020			_a9781479837861 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aHQ78 _b.C668 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDavis, Georgiann, _e1
245	1	0	_aContesting intersex : _bthe dubious diagnosis / _cGeorgiann Davis.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aBiopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: "you're in the monkey cage with me" -- _tThe transformation of intersex advocacy -- _tMedical jurisdiction and the intersex body -- _tThe power in a name -- _tA different kind of information -- _tConclusion: the dubious diagnosis.
520	0		_a"When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to "protect" the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex. Yet, the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality, rather than as a mere biological variation. This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatment. In Contesting Intersex, Davis draws on interviews with intersex people, their parents, and medical experts to explore the oft-questioned views on intersex in medical and activist communities, as well as the evolution of thought in regards to intersex visibility and transparency. She finds that framing intersex as an abnormality is harmful and can alter the course of one's life. In fact, controversy over this framing continues, as intersex has been renamed a 'disorder of sex development' throughout medicine. This happened, she suggests, as a means for doctors to reassert their authority over the intersex body in the face of increasing intersex activism in the 1990s and feminist critiques of intersex medical treatment. Davis argues the renaming of 'intersex' as a 'disorder of sex development' is strong evidence that the intersex diagnosis is dubious. Within the intersex community, though, disorder of sex development terminology is hotly disputed; some prefer not to use a term which pathologizes their bodies, while others prefer to think of intersex in scientific terms. Although terminology is currently a source of tension within the movement, Davis hopes intersex activists and their allies can come together to improve the lives of intersex people, their families, and future generations. However, for this to happen, the intersex diagnosis, as well as sex, gender, and sexuality, needs to be understood as socially constructed phenomena."--Publisher's description.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aIntersex people.
650		0	_aIntersexuality _xHistory.
650		0	_aSexual disorders.
650		0	_aPsychosexual disorders.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1020827&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHQ _m2015 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c84869 _d84869
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell