TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amato,Viola
TI  - Intersex Narratives
T2  - Queer Studies
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Bielefeld, Germany
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Intersex
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Popular Culture
N2  - This book explores representations of intersex : intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category : in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30565/1/645344.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30565
ER  -