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Intersex

Categorie	Psychologie
Boeknummer	#133554
Titel	Intersex
Auteur	Harper, Catherine
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Berg, Oxford
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	1845201825
ISBN13	9781845201821
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	'Intersex' is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common as cleft palate. Like cleft palate, it is hidden and surgically altered, but for very different reasons. This important book draws heavily on the personal testimony of intersexed individuals, their loved ones, and medical carers. The impact of early sex-assignment surgery on an individual's later life is examined within the context of ethical and clinical questions. Harper challenges the conventional and radical 'treatment' of intersexuality through non-consensual infant sex-assignment surgery. In doing so she exposes p... (Lees verder)owerful myths, taboos, and constructions of gender - the perfect phallus, a bi-polar model of gender and the infallibility of medical decisions. Handling sensitive material with care, this book deepens our understanding of a condition that has itself only been medically understood in recent years.
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Conditie	Goed
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