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Cripping intersex / Celeste E. Orr.

"Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention. Cripping Intersex...

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Main Author: Orr, Celeste E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2022]
Series:Disability culture and politics.
Subjects:
Intersex people.
Intersex people > Health and hygiene.
Intersex people > Psychology.
Intersex people > Medical care.
Intersex people > Social conditions.
Intersex people > Identity.
Discrimination against intersex people.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Intersex and/as/is/with Disability
  • Part 1: Exorcising Intersex: Mutilation and Medical Malpractice
  • 1 The Question of Health Risks and Intersex Variations
  • 2 Medical Interventions and Acquired Body-Mind Disabilities
  • 3 Is There Medical Recognition of the Disabilities Created?
  • Part 2: The Racialized Intersex Spectre
  • 4 Temporarily Endosex
  • 5 Cripping Sport Sex Testing
  • 6 Sport Sex and Dis/ability De/segregation
  • Part 3: New Eugenics: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Compulsory Dyadism.
  • 7 Intersex, PGD, and the Eugenics Agenda
  • 8 A Crip Intersex Approach to PGD
  • Conclusion: Eradicating Exorcisms
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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