Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

by Amanda Lock Swarr

Book Overview

Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019611
• ISBN13: 9781478019619
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"