Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism

by David A Rubin and David A. Rubin

Intersex Matters analyzes the medicalization of people diagnosed as "intersex," which is an umbrella term for individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth century to the present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation of atypical sex is fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and an intersectional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438467540
• ISBN13: 9781438467542
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"