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Beschreibung
The book takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting point to explore the issue of determining sex, and the ways in which intersexuality as a "threat" to the distinction between men/women, homosexuality/heterosexuality and white/black, causes medical controversy and emotional as well as political and cultural turmoil.
The book takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting point to explore the issue of determining sex, and the ways in which intersexuality as a "threat" to the distinction between men/women, homosexuality/heterosexuality and white/black, causes medical controversy and emotional as well as political and cultural turmoil.
Über den Autor
Lena Eckert is Assistant Professor in the Media Faculty at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: "I am who I am and I'm proud of myself" Section 1: The Clinic Chapter 1. Pathologization and Surgery Chapter 2. Gender Identity Limited Chapter 3. From Five Sexes to n-sexes Section 2: The Colony Chapter 4. Seeing, hearing, translating Chapter 5. Saving masculinity in cross-cultural intersexualization Excursus: Bound to The Third? Chapter 6. The fifth other Conclusion Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780367348182
ISBN-10: 0367348187
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Eckert, Lena
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Lena Eckert
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2019
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
Artikel-ID: 133169732

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