Hida Viloria / Maria Nieto: The Spectrum of Sex

The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex. UK 2020, 192 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Jessica Kingsley
This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity. Introducing readers to seven variations of human sex, commonly considered intersex, the book challenges the myth that sex and gender are binary and explores the inherent diversity of biological sex and its relationship to gender identity and expression, and the impact this has on society. ... Weiterlesen

Kimberly M. Zieselman: XOXY

A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist). UK 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.99
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Jessica Kingsley
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist. Charting her intersex discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, this book portrays how being intersex impacted Kimberly's personal and family life, as well as her career. From uncovering a secret ... Weiterlesen

I. W. Gregorio: None of the Above

USA 2017, 328 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins
This relatable story for the LGBTQ audience is about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex , and what happens when her secret is revealed in school. When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She's madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she's ... Weiterlesen

Hida Viloria: Born Both

USA 2017, 352 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Hachette
A memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love from one of the world's foremost intersex activists. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that her body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, she felt scared and alone, especially given her attraction to girls. But unlike most people in ... Weiterlesen

Michaela Koch: Discursive Intersexions

Daring Bodies Between Math, Medicine, and Memoir. D 2017, 290 pp., brochure, € 41.20
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transcript
Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work ... Weiterlesen

Viola Amato: Intersex Narratives

Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture. D 2016, 350 pp., brochure, € 51.39
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transcript - Queer Studies
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 ... Weiterlesen

Ellen K. Feder: Making Sense of Intersex

Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine. USA 2014, 261 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Indiana University Press
Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand »the problem« of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to »correct« atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions - one that acknowledges the ... Weiterlesen

Antonio Beccadelli: The Hermaphrodite

Transl. by Holt Parker. USA 2010, lat./engl. Text, 299pp., hardbound, € 32.95
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Harvard University Press
Antonio Beccadelli, known as Panormita from his native town of Palermo, was appointed court poet to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, crowned poet laureate by Emperor Sigismund, and ended his days as panegyrist to King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples, where he founded the first of the Renaissance Academies. »The Hermaphrodite«, his first work, dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici, won ... Weiterlesen

Kathleen Winter: Annabel

USA 2010, 465 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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This debut novel is an intimate portrait of the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a remote, blue-collar seaside town in Eastern Canada. In 1968, into the devastating, beautiful landscape of Labrador, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the ... Weiterlesen

Gerald N. Callahan: Between XX and XY

Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. USA 2009, 195 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Every year in the USA, more than two thousand children are born with an intersex condition or disorder of sex development. What makes someone a boy or a girl? Is it external genitalia, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination of these factors? Not even doctors or scientists are entirely clear. The book explains numerous intersex conditions, such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter ... Weiterlesen

Thea Hillman: Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)

USA 2008, 159 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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»Intersex« chronicles one person's search for self in a world obsessed with normal. What is »intersex«? According to the Intersex Society of North America, the word describes a person born with sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, the author redefines memoir in a series ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

USA 2003, 596 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador
»Middlesex« tells the story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope ... Weiterlesen

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

USA 2002, 196pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book collects and translates most of the extant Graeco-Roman writing on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were both female and male. The author provides a commentary that situates the rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections- from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources - describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as ... Weiterlesen

Alice Domurat Dreger: Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

USA 2000, 284 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Harvard University Press
Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites - people born with »ambiguous« sexual anatomy - and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late 19th century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers ... Weiterlesen