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Intersex / Catherine Harper.

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Intersex' is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Harper, Catherine (Professor of Textiles) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Subjects:
Intersexuality.
Intersex people > Biography.
Intersex people.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The 'mythological hermaphrodite'
  • Louise's story and others
  • David's story and Diamond's recomendations
  • Oluyemi's story
  • Sarah-Jane's story and others
  • Changes in standards of care?
  • Lorna, Jessie, Sal and congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • Joanne, Ellen, Peggy and Androgen insensitivity syndrome
  • Severe undervirilization in genetic males
  • 'Hermaphroditism' and gonadal dysgenesis
  • Sex chromosome variations: Klinefelter's syndrome
  • Sex chromosome variations: Turner syndrome
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Correspondence and interviews
  • Appendix 2. Societies and advocacy groups.

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