Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture

Viola Amato (verst.)

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2016

Intersex Narratives

Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture

Viola Amato (verst.)
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

Volume 12 in the series Queer Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839434192

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About this book

This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies.
Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.

Author / Editor information

Viola Amato (deceased in 2017) earned her PhD in North American Literature and Culture from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focused on queer movements, social class, and higher education in neoliberalism.

Reviews

»Eine wichtige Archiv-Studie, deren Aufarbeitungscharakter den Ansprüchen des Gegenstandes an eine sensible Analyse [...] gerecht wird.«
Lena Eckert, IASLonline, 29.11.2017

»Interesting and reliable.«
Florian G. Mildenberger, Sexuality & Culture, 21 (2017)

»A groundbreaking study that clearly closes a research gap in American Studies.
It is particularly Amatos rootedness in poststructuralist theories of sex and gender and her awareness of the indebtedness of academic discourse to the largely underrepresented history of the intersexmovement that lets the better-known intersexnarratives appear in a new light and provides a new ground for nuanced future readings of intersex narratives.«
Simon Dickel, Amerikastudien, 62/1 (2017)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
2. Approaching Intersex Conceptual and Theoretical Framework Open Access Download PDF	29
3. The Intersex Movement of the 1990s Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence Open Access Download PDF	55
4. Challenging Dominant Narratives From Within Autobiography as a Critical Reflection on the Paradigm Shift in Intersex Narratives Open Access Download PDF	103
5. Reimagining Intersex Literary Renegotiations of the Dis/Continuities between Hegemonic Narratives and the Recognition of ‘Difference’ Open Access Download PDF	159
6. Screening Intersex at Prime Time Intersex in/as a State of Emergency and Popular Culture’s Un/Acceptable Interventions Open Access Download PDF	241
7. “We Exist, We Are Human, We Are Everywhere among You” A Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	295
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	305

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Autobiography; Popular Culture; Medicine; Gender; Body; Queer Theory; Feminism; Activism; Sexuality; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: February 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839434192