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Discursive intersexions : daring bodies between myth, medicine, and memoir / Michaela Koch

Bielefeld : transcript [[2017]], 2017

1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 261-288). - Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Oldenburg, 2016

Erscheint auch als: Koch, Michaela : Discursive Intersexions : Daring Bodies between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir. - Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag,c2017 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-3-8376-3705-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 3-8394-3705-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.14361/9783839437056

HQ78 ; RC883

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LOC-SH: Intersexuality ; Intersexuality -- History ; Intersex people -- Identity ; Discourse analysis ; Intersex people -- Medical care

POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Discourse analysis ; Intersex people ; Identity ; Intersexuality ; History

Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions