TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koch,Michaela
TI  - Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir 
T2  - Praktiken der Subjektivierung
SN  - 9783839437056
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - 21st Century
KW  - Activism
KW  - Body
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Culture
KW  - Discourse Analysis
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Gender
KW  - Intersex
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Queer Theory
KW  - Queer
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Facing the Octopus --; PART I: Hermaphrodite Narratives --; At a Glance I: Hermaphrodite History --; Truth or Dare --; PART II: Intersex Narratives --; At a Glance II: Intersex History --; Facts and Figures of Speech in Science and Activism --; Hermaphroditus ♥ Middlesex: Novel Interpretations of Old Myth --; Intersex in Pieces --; Conclusion: Teaching the Octopus --; Appendix Bodies beyond the Binary in Books and Movies: An Anglophone Chronology --; Bibliography; restricted access
N2  - Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839437056?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839437056
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839437056/original
ER  -