Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience

Abstract

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1. What is Intersexuality? History and Theory 1. Taxonomies of Intersexuality to the 1950s 31 2. Complicating Sex, Routinizing Intervention: The Development of the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 47 3. From Socialization to Hardwire: Challenges to the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 63 Part 2. Making Decisions For and About a Baby with an Intersex Diagnosis 4. Boy or Girl? Bodies of Mixed Evidence and Gender Assignment 89 5. Fixing Sex: Surgery and the Production of Normative Sexuality 133 Part 3. Living the Medicalized Body 6. Waning and Deciding What is Best: Parents' Experiences 179 7. Growing Up under the Medical Gaze 216 8. The Intersex Body in the World: Activism and Social and Medical Change 236 Notes 291 References 321 Index 343