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Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex
Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them in late 19th-century France and England. It takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality.
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Doubting sex
An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to ‘create more space’ in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book. How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists.
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Effects of cortisol on female-to-male sex change in a wrasse
Tests the role of cortisol as an initiator of sex change in a protogynous (female-to-male) hermaphrodite, the New Zealand spotty wrasse (Notolabrus celidotus). Identifies potential key regulatory factors within the head kidney that may contribute to the initiation and progression of gonadal sex change. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Making Sense of Intersex
Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand \"the problem\" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to \"correct\" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions-one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors-Feder presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.
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Sexual‐ and Gender‐Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review
This paper critically reviews research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) families, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and other (LGBTQAI+) families, in the past decade (2010–2020). First, this paper details the three primary subareas that make up the majority of research on SGM families: (1) SGM family of origin relationships, (2) SGM intimate relationships, and (3) SGM‐parent families. Next, this paper highlights three main gaps in this decade's research: (1) a focus on gay, lesbian, and same‐sex families (and to a lesser extent bisexual and transgender families) and a lack of attention to the diverse family ties of single SGM people as well as intersex, asexual, queer, gender non‐binary/non‐conforming, polyamorous, and other SGM families; (2) an emphasis on white, socioeconomically advantaged SGM people and a failure to account for the significant racial‐ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in the SGM population; and (3) a lack of integration of SGM experiences across the life course, from childhood to old age. Future research should refine the measurement and analysis of SGM family ties with novel theory and data across the methodological spectrum.
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Differentiating sex and gender in health research to achieve gender equity
Pour suivre efficacement les progres des initiatives centrées sur ľégalité des genres, II est impératif de distinguer clairement les termes «sexe» et «genre». Le sexe fait généralement reference aux caractéristigues biologigues d'une personne, tandis gue le genre se rapporte aux normes et rôles socialement construits. Bien gue ces termes soient souvent consideres comme binaires, le genre est un spectre et le sexe est susceptible ďinclure les individus intersexués.Tous deux sont étroitement liés; en revanche, ils sont parfois confondus ou employes comme synonymes dans les données relatives à la santé. Pourtant, leurs differences fondamentales ont des conséguences sur la conduite des recherches et ľélaboration d'interventions ciblant les disparités sanitaires fondees sur le sexe et le genre. Dans le present document, nous citons l'exemple de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 pour montrer gue, lorsgue ces termes sont assimiles ľun à ľautredans la collecte de données, ii devient difficile ďétablir si le sexe ou le genre entraîne des variationsau niveau des tauxd'infection, de morbiditě et de mortalitě. II pourrait s'avérer nécessaire ďadapter la méthode utilisée pour recueillir les données sur le sexe et le genre dans certains contextes spécifiques; néanmoins, il est possible ďentreprendre des demarches pour gue les données relatives à la santé reflětent davantage les differences entre ces concepts. Parmi les actions envisagées figure ľusage ďun processus de collecte des données en deux éta pes, servant determiner tant le sexe gue le genre des individus et favorisant la reconnaissance des personnes intersexuées, du troisiěme genre, transgenres et non binaires. Celles et ceux charges de récolter les données et de rediger les recherches doivent également faire preuve d'acceptation et d'engagement, notamment en recourant à des outils teis gue la liste de contróle issue des recommandations sur ľégalité des sexes et des genres dans la recherche (Sex and Gender Eguity in Research, SAGER). Mieux comprendre les differences entre ces deux termes essentiels et leur emploi dans les données sanitaires aboutira à des resultats plus précis, des interventions plus pertinentes et davantage de progres vers ľégalité des genres.
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