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Author Koch, Michaela, author.

Title Discursive intersexions : daring bodies between myth, medicine, and memoir / Michaela Koch
Published Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Praktiken der Subjektivierung ; volume 9
Praktiken der Subjektivierung ; v. 9.
Contents Introduction : facing the octopus -- At a glance I : hermaphrodite history -- Truth or dare : the memoirs of Herculine Barbin -- N.O. Body and the making of a true man -- At a glance II : intersex history -- Facts and figures of speech in science and activism -- Hermaphroditus & Middlesex : novel interpretations of old myth -- Intersex in pieces : Thea Hillman refuses to know better -- Conclusion : teaching the octopus -- Appendix : Bodies beyond the binary in books and movies : an anglophone chronology -- Bibliography
Summary 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
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Oldenburg, 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference (pages 261-288)
Notes In English
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Subject Intersex people -- Identity.
Intersex people -- Medical care
Intersexuality.
Intersexuality -- History
Discourse analysis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
Discourse analysis
Intersex people -- Identity
Intersexuality
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783839437056
3839437059
Other Titles Daring bodies between myth, medicine, and memoir