Envisioning African intersex : challenging colonial and racist legacies in South African medicine

Envisioning African intersex challenging colonial and racist legacies in South African medicine

"Since the early seventeenth century, travelers, scientists, and doctors have falsely claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among Black South Africans. Envisioning African Intersex debunks these claims and interrogates how contemporary intersex medi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Amanda Lock Swarr funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Swarr, Amanda Lock, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Gross, Sally, > 1953-2014.
Semenya, Caster, > 1991-
Intersex people > Medical care > South Africa.
Intersex people > Political activity > South Africa.
Discrimination against intersex people > South Africa.
Racism in medicine > South Africa.
Scientific racism > South Africa.
South Africa.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009733929606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pathologizing gender binaries : intersex images and citational chains
  • Colonial observations and fallacies : "hermaphroditism" in histories of South Africa
  • "Intersex in four South African racial groups in Durban" : visualizing scientific racism and gendered medicine
  • Defying medical violence and social death : Sally Gross and the inception of South African intersex activism
  • #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya's refusals and the decolonization of gender testing
  • Toward an "African intersex reference of intelligence" : directions in intersex organizing
  • Reframing visions of South African intersex.

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