Intersex Narratives

Intersex activists reclaim their narratives from the medical hegemony. How do cultural productions negotiate this recent shift in ideas about intersex?

»Eine wichtige Archiv-Studie, deren Aufarbeitungscharakter den Ansprüchen des Gegenstandes an eine sensible Analyse [...] gerecht wird.«

»Interesting and reliable.«

»A groundbreaking study that clearly closes a research gap in American Studies.It is particularly Amatos rootedness in poststructuralist theories of sex and gender and her awareness of the indebtedness of academic discourse to the largely underrepresented history of the intersexmovement that lets the better-known intersexnarratives appear in a new light and provides a new ground for nuanced future readings of intersex narratives.«

»Interesting and reliable.«

»A groundbreaking study that clearly closes a research gap in American Studies.It is particularly Amatos rootedness in poststructuralist theories of sex and gender and her awareness of the indebtedness of academic discourse to the largely underrepresented history of the intersexmovement that lets the better-known intersexnarratives appear in a new light and provides a new ground for nuanced future readings of intersex narratives.«