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Envisioning African Intersex
- Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
Engelsk Paperback
Envisioning African Intersex
- Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
Engelsk Paperback

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Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors’ impositions to fashion self-representation. By unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes. All author royalties from Envisioning African Intersex will be donated to Intersex South Africa.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478019619
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478019611
Udg. Dato:
8 mar 2023
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):
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