Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Megan Walker.
• Editors: Walker, Megan
• Contents: 1. Introduction.Part I Representing Intersex.2. Intersex in Fictional Films Throughout History: Towards a Cinema of Inclusion?.3. 'Declining to Describe': Intersex Narrators and Textual Visibility.4. The Importance of Narrative in Intersex Representation: A Literary Reading of John Money's Case Histories.5. Toxic Sexing: Aaron Apps' Intersex Poetics in Our Chemically Altered Age.6. 'This Is What I Am and Who I Am': Exploring Authorship and Ethics in Intersex Research and Reflective Diaries.7. When Bioethics Fails: Intersex, Epistemic Injustice and Advocacy.8. Afterword to "Representing Intersex".Part II Global Intersex.9. Examining Autonomy and Consent in Gender Assignment Decisions on Intersex People in India.10. An Apparent Paradox: The Bio-medicalisation of Intersex Variations in Italy.11. A Critical Analysis of The Transgender (Intersex) Persons Act, 2018, in Pakistan Versus United Nations Recommendations.12. Towards an Inclusive Approach to Harmful Practices: The Case of Western Elective Surgeries on Intersex Children.13. The Geneticisation of Intersex Bodies in Israel.14. Western Management of Intersex and the Myth of Patient-Centred Care.15. Global Intersex, an Afterword: Global Medicine, Connected Communities, and Universal Human Rights.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.7685; Intersex people -- Social conditions; Intersex people -- Identity; Intersex people in literature; Intersex people in art; Intersex people in motion pictures; Intersexuality -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030914752
• Related ISBNs: 9783030914745
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