Envisioning African Intersex : Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine /

"Since the early seventeenth century, travelers, scientists, and doctors have falsely claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among Black South Africans. Envisioning African Intersex debunks these claims and interrogates how contemporary intersex medicine is embedde...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Swarr, Amanda Lock (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Pathologizing gender binaries : intersex images and citational chains
  • Colonial observations and fallacies : "hermaphroditism" in histories of South Africa
  • "Intersex in four South African racial groups in Durban" : visualizing scientific racism and gendered medicine
  • Defying medical violence and social death : Sally Gross and the inception of South African intersex activism
  • #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya's refusals and the decolonization of gender testing
  • Toward an "African intersex reference of intelligence" : directions in intersex organizing
  • Reframing visions of South African intersex.