Intersex: cultural and social perspectives

Surya Monro*, Morgan Carpenter, Daniela Crocetti, Georgiann Davis, Fae Garland, David Griffiths, Peter Hegarty, Mitchell Travis, Mauro Cabral Grinspan, Peter Aggleton

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    Abstract

    Intersex has been a topic of much discussion in courses on sex and gender in the academy. Much of this discourse has centred on the nature of intersex and how far it challenges the categories of sex and gender. As Emi Koyama and Lisa Weasel pointed out in 2002, this form of academic appropriation risks diverting attention from important social justice issues towards trivial or reductive theorising about social construction. Academic enquiries into the oppression of people with intersex variations may only sometimes be helpful in bringing hegemonic forces of body normativity, prejudice and sex/gender norms into question.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)431-440
    Number of pages10
    JournalCulture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume23
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

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