Posts Tagged ‘intersex book’
Viloria Published in College Textbook by Oxford University Press
IC4E E.D. Hida Viloria’s essay, “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity”, was published this month in the college textbook, Queer: A Reader for Writers, by Oxford University Press. The book includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, and was developed for courses in first-year writing. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and…
Read MoreIntersex book review: GOLDEN BOY
Hida Viloria’s review Three Reasons This Intersex Lesbian Loved Abigail Tartellin’s “Golden Boy”, about the novel featuring an intersex teen, can be found on her blog Intersex and Out. http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/ , Autostraddle, and Gay And Lesbian News.
Read MoreFixing Sex, by Professor Katrina Karkazis
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke University Press, 2008), by Professor Katrina Karkazis, is a seminal text on the highly controversial medical efforts to “treat” intersex people, historically known as the field of “intersex medical management.” A medical anthropologist and bioethicist at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of…
Read MoreIntersex and Identity: The Contested Self
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Rutgers University Press, 2003), by Sharon Preeves, is a groundbreaking text about intersex people, our identities and medical treatment. Professor Preeves is a professor and chair of the Sociology Department and director of the Public Health Sciences Program at Hamline University who recently served as a faculty research collaborator…
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