Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis

Biopolitics

Georgiann Davis

240 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to “protect” the development of h...

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