... intersexuality. Intersex in the Age of Ethics Alice Domurat Dreger, ed. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group , 1999 . x + 227 pp . Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality Erik Parens, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press , 2006 . xxx + 274...

... scholarship that tries to elucidate the (presumably) unproblematic categories of “female” and “male” by focusing on those who violate them. Anyone who writes about intersexuality is used to being asked, “How com- mon is it?” While offering published...

... the world with sexual anatomy that fails to be easily distinguished as male or female. Such individuals are labeled “intersexuals” or “hermaphrodites” by modern medical discourse.1 About one in a hundred births exhibits some anomaly in sex differentiation,2 and about one in two thousand is...

..., Julie A. Greenberg is professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Her work on gender identity has been cited by a number of state and federal courts in the United States as well as courts in other countries. Her book Sex Matters: Intersexuality and the Law is forthcoming...

..., appalled, and they were, according to their own description, unclear how to proceed. Then one evening, about a year later, they were watching television, and there they encountered Money talking about transsexual and intersexual surgery and offering...

... Early in the intersex rights movement, activists, scholars, and journalists some- times referred to intersexuals, but this term has largely fallen out of favor because it can be essentializing and dehumanizing to equate people with one aspect of their physicality. Instead, many advocates and...

... tradition led to what would become an alphabet soup of an acronym, all aimed at depicting the image of inclusion. Intersexuality, indigenous forms of gender transgression (such as two- spirit) and other distinct categories of identity and expression were roped into this...

...? And what is at stake in managing these bodies? Focusing on the last three hundred years of American cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Reis’s study reveals the different strategies employed to make sense of intersexual bod- ies. Often viewed as monstrosities up until the...

...? And what is at stake in managing these bodies? Focusing on the last three hundred years of American cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Reis’s study reveals the different strategies employed to make sense of intersexual bod- ies. Often viewed as monstrosities up until the...

...? And what is at stake in managing these bodies? Focusing on the last three hundred years of American cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Reis’s study reveals the different strategies employed to make sense of intersexual bod- ies. Often viewed as monstrosities up until the...

...? And what is at stake in managing these bodies? Focusing on the last three hundred years of American cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Reis’s study reveals the different strategies employed to make sense of intersexual bod- ies. Often viewed as monstrosities up until the...

...? And what is at stake in managing these bodies? Focusing on the last three hundred years of American cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Reis’s study reveals the different strategies employed to make sense of intersexual bod- ies. Often viewed as monstrosities up until the...

... law, based at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Her work on gender and sexual identity has been influential worldwide.2 Her current project, Sex Matters: Intersexuality and the Law, will be published in 2010 by New York University Press.3 Del LaGrace Volcano is a visual...

... to the change in nomenclature seem to take for granted first that there are such things as “intersexuals,” which would render the characterization of the condition as a disorder offensive.5 The second concern with the new nomenclature is related to the first — namely, that...

... have been virtually ignored by bioethicists. Nor have related issues—the surgical management of intersexuality, for instance—attracted much attention. You could breeze through the bioethical literature on such topics in an afternoon, while attempting a survey of bioethical writings...

...) hermaphroditism to intersexuality. The new term intersexuality better acknowl- edged a “continuum of physiological and anatomical sex differences” and chal- lenged “the idea of a ‘true sex’ hidden within the body’s tissues” (78). This devel- opment made biological reasoning as the basis of sex assignment less...

... sensations such as pleasure, shame, and touching. Lastly, Nikki Sullivan’s review essay, “The Somatechnics of Intersexual- ity,” critically appraises three multidisciplinary anthologies in which the tradi- tional medical management of intersex is, in turn, evaluated and often...

... solutions. Such stories often appeared on the margins of the main- stream press, in sensational magazines, tabloid newspapers, or publications like Sexology that presented the science of sex to a popular audience.25 They covered cases of cross-gender behavior, intersexuality...

... Cotinot et al., “Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination,” Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 20 (2002): 158; Eric Vilain, “Genetics of Intersexuality,” Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 10 (2006): 13; and Berenice B. Mendonca, Soharia Domenice, Ivo J. P. Arnhold, and Elaine M. F. Costa, “46...