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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820154503321

Autore

Malatino Hilary

Titolo

Queer embodiment : monstrosity, medical violence, and intersex experience / / Hilary Malatino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4962-1373-4

1-4962-1371-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Collana

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Disciplina

306.7601

Soggetti

Queer theory

Human body - Social aspects

Intersex people - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--