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Author Karkazis, Katrina Alicia, 1970-

Title Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience / Katrina Karkazis.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.694 K18F    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-342) and index.
Contents Taxonomies of intersexuality to the 1950s -- Complicating sex, routinizing intervention : the development of the traditional treatment paradigm -- From socialization to hardwire : challenges to the traditional treatment paradigm -- Boy or girl? : bodies of mixed evidence and gender assignment -- Fixing sex : surgery and the production of normative sexuality -- Wanting and deciding what is best : parents' experiences -- Growing up under the medical gaze : adults' experiences -- The intersex body in the world : activism and social and medical change.
Subject Intersexuality.
Gender identity.
Intersexuality -- Social aspects.
Intersex children.
Disorders of Sex Development -- psychology.
Disorders of Sex Development -- surgery.
Gender Identity.
ISBN 9780822343028 cloth alkaline paper
0822343029 cloth alkaline paper
9780822343189 paperback alkaline paper
0822343185 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 2828595
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