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Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture
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Abstract This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on int... view more
This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, the author provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.... view less
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
Activism; Autobiography; Body; Cultural Studies; Feminism; Gender; Gender Studies; Intersex; Medicine; Popular Culture; Queer Theory; Sexuality
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
315 p.
Series
Queer Studies, 12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839434192
ISBN
978-3-8394-3419-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0