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Envisioning African Intersex – Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

Autor Amanda Lock Swarr
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 apr 2023
Amanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.
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ISBN-13: 9781478016977
ISBN-10: 1478016973
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Notă biografică

Amanda Lock Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, author of Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa, and coeditor of Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis.

Cuprins

Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains 1
Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies
1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: “Hermaphroditism” in Histories of South Africa 23
2. “Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban”: Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine 49
Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions
3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism 73
4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya’s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing 102
5. Toward an “African Intersex Reference of Intelligence”: Directions in Intersex Organizing 132
Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex 156
Acknowledgments 161
Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross 165
Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya 167
Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020) 169
Notes 171
References 207
Index 231