Cripping Intersex

Celeste E. Orr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2022
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6553-1 (ISBN)

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Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.

Cripping Intersex examines three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies and procedures; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Celeste E. Orr investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new approach to intersex studies and activism. The integration of feminist disability studies with intersex studies provides tools to break down the traditional sex dyad and the entrenched cultural mandate against intersex traits.

This necessary work offers a radical new understanding of intersex-with-disability, pushing analyses of intersex histories, experience, and embodiment further than feminist or queer theory can do alone.

Celeste E. Orr is a research associate at the University of Ottawa. Their research has been featured in Feminist Theory; From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine; Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Mothering, Mothers, and Sport: Experiences, Representations, Resistances; and Connecting, Rethinking and Embracing Difference. Orr was a finalist for the Pierre Laberge Prize for Achievement in the Humanities.

Introduction: Intersex and/as/is/with Disability

Part 1: Exorcising Intersex: Mutilation and Medical Malpractice

1 The Question of Health Risks and Intersex Variations

2 Medical Interventions and Acquired Body-Mind Disabilities

3 Is There Medical Recognition of the Disabilities Created?

Part 2: The Racialized Intersex Spectre

4 Temporarily Endosex

5 Cripping Sport Sex Testing

6 Sport Sex and Dis/ability De/segregation

Part 3: New Eugenics: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Compulsory Dyadism

7 Intersex, PGD, and the Eugenic Agenda

8 A Crip Intersex Approach to PGD

Conclusion: Eradicating Exorcisms

Notes; Works Cited; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Disability Culture and Politics
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7748-6553-9 / 0774865539
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6553-1 / 9780774865531
Zustand	Neuware