Queer Embodiment - Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience Malatino HilaryPevná vazba
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how…
Specifikacia Queer Embodiment - Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience Malatino HilaryPevná vazba
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.Malatino traces both institutional and interpersonal failures to dignify non-sexually dimorphic bodies and examines how the ontology of gender difference developed by modern sexologists conflicts with embodied experience. Malatino comprehensively shows how gender-normalizing practices begin at the clinic but are amplified thereafter through mechanisms of institutional exclusion and through Eurocentric cultures' cis-centric and bio-normative notions of sexuality, reproductive capacity, romantic