... of 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...

... in 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 different...

... of 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...

... 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 from NYU...

... at that time that “little has been written about intersexuality, although its concerns often intersect with those of feminist and queer theory” (Holmes 1994 b: 11). Throughout her work she has argued that the surgeries that aimed to “normalize” her body at a young age did nothing of the sort, declaring...

..., 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...

... partners. (Such people are known contemptuously in intersex activist circles as “wannafucks 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...

... 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...

... Lorde and the Power of Touch,” GLQ 9 (2003): 192. 2. Cheryl Chase, letter to the editor, Journal of Urology 156 (1996): 1139; see also Mor- gan Holmes, “Rethinking the Meaning and Management of Intersexuality,” Sexuali- ties 5 (2002): 163. 3. N. S. Crouch et al., “Genital Sensation...

... 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...

... 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 eighteenth...

... 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 eighteenth...

... 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 eighteenth...

...? 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 eighteenth century, these bodies were...

... 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 eighteenth...

... 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 artist whose work engages...

..., such as hormonal sex and chromosomal sex, had been discovered, medical science had to acknowledge that there was no single biological criterion for “true sex.”20 Hausman notices an accompanying shift in conceptualization: from (pseudo) hermaphroditism to intersexuality. The new term intersexuality better...

... 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, homosexuality, and transvestism, sometimes without distinguishing among them...

...). This 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...

... 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 contested...