Intersex For Lack Of A Better Word
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Intersex For Lack Of A Better Word
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Author : Thea Hillman
language : en
Publisher: Manic D Press
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Intersex For Lack Of A Better Word written by Thea Hillman and has been published by Manic D Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Social Science categories.
“In Hillman’s world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian “Hillman’s writing is sexy because it’s smart and refuses to simplify things.”—Fabula Magazine "Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases both the personal, embodied realities of intersex, and the social and political milieus that shape them... Intersex, too, is gorgeously written."—Women's Review of Books "It's utterly impossible to not be spellbound by performer-activist Thea Hillman, in person or in print ... A must-read."—Curve “There’s nothing else in print like this amazing and courageous book.”—Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism “An important and wonderfully disarming book. Poetic, political, and deeply personal.”—Beth Lisick, author of Helping Me Help Myself Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) chronicles one person’s search for self in a world obsessed with normal. What is “intersex”? According to the Intersex Society of North America, the word describes someone born with sex chromosomes, genitalia, or an internal reproductive system that are neither clearly male nor clearly female. In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Thea Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. Whether she’s pondering quirky family tendencies (“Drag”), reflecting on “queerness” (“Another”), or recounting scintillating adventures in San Francisco’s sex clubs, Hillman’s brave and fierce vision for cultural and societal change shines through.
For Lack Of A Better Word
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Author : Thea Hillman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
For Lack Of A Better Word written by Thea Hillman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Identity (Psychology) categories.
This is a memoir of a lesbian poet/activist who grew up intersexed, fat and Jewish in 1980s California. The discoveries she brings back from America's gender underground are as intimate as a diary, compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. What does it mean to be a woman? To be intersexed? Queer? Jewish? Fat? Femme? Middle-class? An activist and author? What happens when these identities are combined? Subtracted? Blurred or blown apart? Here are the universal lessons that can be found in a petrified world.
Intersex
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Intersex written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Health categories.
Trans Talmud
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Author : Max K. Strassfeld
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-10-03
Trans Talmud written by Max K. Strassfeld and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with categories.
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.
Discursive Intersexions
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Author : Michaela Koch
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Discursive Intersexions written by Michaela Koch and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Social Science categories.
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.
Intersex Narratives
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Author : Viola Amato (verst.)
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2016-02-29
Intersex Narratives written by Viola Amato (verst.) and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with Social Science categories.
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.
Intersex Theology And The Bible
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Author : Susannah Cornwall
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Intersex Theology And The Bible written by Susannah Cornwall and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Religion categories.
Intersex bodies have been figured as troubling by doctors, parents, religious institutions and society at large. In this book, scholars draw on constructive and pastoral theologies, biblical studies, and sociology, suggesting intersex's capacity to 'trouble' is positive, challenging unquestioned norms and assumptions in religion and beyond.
Interdisciplinary And Global Perspectives On Intersex
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Author : Megan Walker
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-24
Interdisciplinary And Global Perspectives On Intersex written by Megan Walker and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection interrogates how social and cultural representations of individuals with intersex variations impact how they are understood and treated from legal and medical perspectives across the world. Contributors consider how novelists, filmmakers, artists, and medical professionals have represented people with intersex variations, and highlight the importance of ethical representation and autonomy to encourage wider cultural and medical knowledge of intersex variations as a naturally occurring phenomenon. The text also examines the ways in which individuals with intersex variations are represented and viewed in India, Italy, Pakistan and Israel, as well as how this impacts decision making for the individuals, families and medical providers. This book argues that reactions to intersex variations will not change unless they are no longer presented as treatable disorders. It positions representation at the forefront, shifting the emphasis away from a concern for maintaining gender norms to upholding the human rights of intersex people. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in intersex studies as well as policymakers and activists.
Intersex Matters
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Author : David A. Rubin
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2017-09-28
Intersex Matters written by David A. Rubin and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with Social Science categories.
Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional, and transnational lens. Intersex Matters analyzes the medicalization of people diagnosed as intersex, which is an umbrella term for individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth century to the present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation of atypical sex is fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and an intersectional and transnational one as well. Critical attention to intersex lives, bodies, narratives, and activisms profoundly reconfigures contemporary paradigms of sex/gender, race, health, normality, biopolitics, and human rights. Rubin charts the emergence of intersex rights activism in the global north and global south, thus demonstrating the value of understanding intersex experience when rethinking the vicissitudes of body politics in a globally interconnected world. Intersex Matters is conceptually sharp, thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and offers an account of intersex that weve never seen before. It is a remarkable book. Gayle Salamon, Princeton University The scholarship is sound and well written. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature and further adds to our knowledge of intersex. Georgiann Davis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Appalling Bodies
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Author : Joseph A. Marchal
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-08
Appalling Bodies written by Joseph A. Marchal and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-08 with Religion categories.
The letters of Paul are among the most commonly cited biblical texts in ongoing cultural and religious disputes about gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Appalling Bodies reframes these uses of the letters by reaching past Paul toward other, far more fascinating figures that appear before, after, and within the letters. The letters repeat ancient stereotypes about women, eunuchs, slaves, and barbarians--in their Roman imperial setting, each of these overlapping groups were cast as debased, dangerous, and complicated. Joseph Marchal presents new ways for us to think about these dangers and complications with the help of queer theory. Appalling Bodies juxtaposes these ancient figures against recent figures of gender and sexual variation, in order to defamiliarize and reorient what can be known about both. The connections between the marginalization and stigmatization of these figures troubles the history, ethics, and politics of biblical interpretation. Ultimately, Marchal assembles and reintroduces us to Appalling Bodies from then and now, and the study of Paul's letters may never be the same.