Intersexuality: a feminist look
This paper gives a queer feminist perspective about intersexuality, with Judith Butler’s theories as background to read another three feminist important authors in the study of intersexuality: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Suzanne Kessler and Alice Dreger. These three authors have done very interesting stud...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Alicante
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Feminismo/s |
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| Online Access: | https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2012-n19-intersexualidad-una-mirada-feminista |
| Summary: | This paper gives a queer feminist perspective about intersexuality, with Judith Butler’s theories as background to read another three feminist important authors in the study of intersexuality: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Suzanne Kessler and Alice Dreger. These three authors have done very interesting studies about intersexuality from different perspectives: from biology, from psychology and from history. The three of them make efforts to change the medical and social treatment that people who are born with bodies that defy the norms of gender, sex, and sexuality suffer, in order to work to loosen the definition of «human», to develop this definition outside of the sex binarism, and being able to hold bodies that today are considered as ambiguous and that cannot (and sometimes don’t want to) frame themselves on the binarian system of gender and sex. |
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| ISSN: | 1696-8166 1989-9998 |