Envisioning African Intersex

Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

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Swarr, Amanda Lock

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Duke University Presserschienen am08.03.2023

Amanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim hermaphroditism and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.mehr

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KlappentextAmanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim hermaphroditism and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4780-1697-7

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Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2023

Erscheinungsdatum08.03.2023

Seiten248 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht476 g

Artikel-Nr.58950490

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains 1 Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies 1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: Hermaphroditism in Histories of South Africa 23 2. Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban : Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine 49 Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions 3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism 73 4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya´s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing 102 5. Toward an African Intersex Reference of Intelligence : Directions in Intersex Organizing 132 Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex 156 Acknowledgments 161 Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross 165 Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya 167 Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020) 169 Notes 171 References 207 Index 231mehr