Queer Embodiment - Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience

Informationen zum Autor Hil Malatino is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University and core faculty in the Rock Ethics Institute.         Klappentext Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Hil Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.   Zusammenfassung Provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans persons. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: Neither/Nor (Notes on Theory and Livability) 1. Queer Monsters: Michel Foucault and Herculine Barbin Interlude: capacity 2. Impossible Existences: Intersex and “Disorders of Sex Development” Interlude: repair 3. Gone, Missing: Queering and Racializing Absence in Trans and Intersex Archives Interlude: on sight 4. Black Bar, Queer Gaze: Medical Photography and the Re-visioning of Queer Corporealities Interlude: on record 5. State Science: Biopolitics and the Medicalization of Gender Nonconformance Interlude: mirrors 6. Toward Coalition: Becoming, Monstrosity, and Sexed Embodiment Notes Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hil Malatino, Hilary Malatino
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780803295933
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9593-3
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche