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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.
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Intersex Matters

1. “An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender

2. Intersex Trouble in Feminist Studies

3. “Stigma and Trauma, Not Gender”: A Genealogy of US Intersex Activism

4. Provincializing Intersex: Transnational Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Body Politics

5. Intersectionality and Intersex in Transnational Times

Conclusion: Thinking Intersex Otherwise: Disorders of Sex Development, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Uncertainty

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Gender studies

Sexualité

sexualité

Sexualité

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	28 septembre 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781438467566
Langue	English

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Intersex Matters
SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Cynthia Burack and Jyl J. Josephson, editors
Intersex Matters
Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
DAVID A. RUBIN
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
© 2017 State University of New York
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Production, Diane Ganeles
Marketing, Michael Campochiaro
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rubin, David A., 1978– author.
Title: Intersex matters : biomedical embodiment, gender regulation, and transnational activism / David A. Rubin.
Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017] | Series: SUNY series in queer politics and cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016059171 (print) | LCCN 2017020893 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438467566 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438467559 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Intersex people—Identity. | Intersexuality. | Gender identity.
Classification: LCC HQ78 (ebook) | LCC HQ78 .R83 2017 (print) | DDC 306.76/85—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016059171
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For my parents, Terrill Kay Eliseuson and Jerome Leon Rubin
And for Max Beck and Berky Abreu, in Memoriam
Contents
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
I NTRODUCTION
Intersex Matters
C HAPTER 1
“An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender
C HAPTER 2
Intersex Trouble in Feminist Studies
C HAPTER 3
“Stigma and Trauma, Not Gender”: A Genealogy of US Intersex Activism
C HAPTER 4
Provincializing Intersex: Transnational Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Body Politics
C HAPTER 5
Intersectionality and Intersex in Transnational Times
C ONCLUSION
Thinking Intersex Otherwise: Disorders of Sex Development, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Uncertainty
N OTES
B IBLIOGRAPHY
I NDEX
Acknowledgments
This book owes its livelihood to friends, family, advisors, and colleagues who generously gave their time, feedback, advice, and encouragement along the way. I am profoundly indebted to the individuals and communities who helped to make this project a reality.
The book saw its beginnings nearly a decade ago in my dissertation project for the Women’s Studies department at Emory University. I am grateful to my chair, Lynne Huffer, and my committee, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Holloway Sparks, for taking me under their wings, commenting on countless drafts, and sharing their wisdom when I needed it most. Lynne has been and remains a mentor without parallel. For her invaluable advice and steadfast support, I cannot thank Lynne enough. Thanks are due as well to my master’s thesis advisor, Miranda Joseph, for her remarkable generosity and kindness, and to Sandra Soto, Charlie Bertsch, and Laura Briggs for their formative inspiration and support. I thank my undergraduate teachers Sue Ellen Jacobs, Tani E. Barlow, Priti Ramamurthy, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Shirley J. Yee, Steven J. Shapiro, and Matthew Sparke for nurturing my interest in feminist inquiry. Phil Tobin and Stacy Yee, two other early mentors, deserve special thanks for their abiding support and warmth.
Most of this book was written and rewritten while I was teaching in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Vanderbilt University and at my current institutional home, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida (USF). At Vanderbilt, thanks are due to Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Ellen Armour, Katharine Crawford, Rory Dicker, Julie Fesmire, and the one and only Barbara R. Kaeser. I am tremendously grateful to my colleagues in Women’s and Gender Studies at USF—Diane Price Herndl, Elizabeth Bell, Kim Golombisky, Michelle Hughes Miller, Milton Wendland, Jessie Turner, Rondrea Mathis, and Jennifer Ellerman-Queen—for welcoming me into the department with open arms and supporting my work. It is a true honor to be a member of such a generative and lively academic community. Diane deserves extra-special thanks for her guidance and mentorship since my arrival at USF.
Research for Chapter 5 was supported by a 2014 summer Research Grant from the Humanities Institute at USF. Thank you to Elizabeth Bird, Elizabeth Kicak, and staff of the Humanities Institute for their assistance.
For helping me to think through many of the ideas in this book, I thank the members of my “Politics of Women’s Health,” “Transnational Feminisms,” and “Queer Feminist Science Studies” undergraduate and graduate seminars at USF. In particular, I thank Sandra Carpenter, Laura Leisinger, Ella Browning, Azure Samuels, Mary Dickman, Kelly Dyer, Sunahtah Jones, Richard Henry, Kaajal Patel, Paola Rivera, Jennie Reiken, Viki Peer, and Mary McKelvie.
For generously sharing insights about intersex, medicalization, and activism, I am indebted to Max Beck, David Cameron Strachan, Marcus Arana aka Tio, Anne Tamar-Mattis, Caitlin Petrakis Childs, Lynell Stephani Long, Iain Morland, Georgiann Davis, Morgan Holmes, Hilary Malatino, Monica Casper, and Irie Keiko.
Thank you as well to friends, colleagues, teachers, and editors who helped me to grow over the years: Berky Abreu, Mark Jordan, Jack Halberstam, Agatha Beins, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Rez Pullen, Elizabeth Vennel, Carla Freeman, Beth Reingold, Elizabeth Wilson, Martine Brownley, Cynthia Willett, Geoffrey Bennington, Eric Hayot, Claire Nouvet, Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Deepika Bahri, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Gayatri Gopinath, Carla Freccero, Banu Subramaniem, Larin R. McLaughlin, Moya Bailey, Stefanie Speanburg, Jae Turner, Sarah Prince, Brandi Simula, Shruthi Vissa, Shannan Palma, Linda Calloway, Elizabeth Kennedy, Monique Wittig, Suresh Somnath Raval, Paul C. Taylor, Amy Harrington, LeKeisha Hughes, Lee Burkey, Karen Leong, Roberta Chevrette, Cricket Keating, Clint Harris, Samantha Ruehlman, Kyle Lighthiser, Erin Durben-Albrecht, Sara Giordano, Deboleena Roy, Courtney Berger, Robyn Wiegman, Sara Jo Cohen, Meridith Kruse, Alberto Delgado, Susan Stryker, Richard Morrison, Antionio Viego, Ron Dobson, Roderick Ferguson, Mary Hawkesworth, Miranda Outman, Andrew Mazzaschi, and Michelle Richards.
Huge thanks to Stanley Thangaraj for being a cherished friend and trusted ally. Thanks to Angela Willey, Kristina Gupta, and Cyd Cipolla, my co-conspirators and collaborators in queer feminist science studies, for indispensible advice, commiseration, and camaraderie. Thanks to Zach Zulauf, Scott Lindsay, Ayako Takamori, Rehka Kuver, and Juliet Ceballos for their long-standing care and support.
I am very lucky to have a consummate philosopher-companion in Solan Jascha Jensen, who I thank for always being by my side, even when he is halfway around the world. Words cannot adequately express how much this work owes its existence to my dear friend Joshua Marie Wilkinson. For his unshakeable faith, sage advice at literally every turn, abiding critical questions throughout good times and bad, and unparalleled loyalty, I am beyond thankful to Joshua.
For their unconditional love since day one, I thank my family: Terrill Kay Eliseuson, Jerome Leon Rubin, Alex Rubin, my aunts, uncles, and cousins, and the late Mildred Rubin. I especially want to thank my parents for their sustained material and emotional support and for imparting in me their belief in the value of critical thinking. Tony deserves special recognition for always reminding me of what’s important. Endless thanks to Erica Brundidge for much-needed laughter, joy, and sustenance. The struggle continues.
Beth Bouloukos has been a kind and dedicated editor. Thanks to Beth, Rafael Chaiken, Diane Ganeles, Michael Campochiaro, and the entire team at SUNY for being incredibly helpful throughout this process. I am grateful to David Luljak for his careful assistance in compiling the index. Thank you to the anonymous readers of this manuscript for their extremely generous and perceptive feedback, criticisms, and suggestions for revision. Any errors, flaws, or omissions that remain are, of course, entirely my own.
Parts of this book have appeared elsewhere in different forms. An earlier version of Chapter 1 was published as “ ‘An Unnamed Blank that Craved a Name’: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender,” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2012). An earlier version of Chapter 5 and part of the conclusion appeared in “Provincializing Intersex: U.S. Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics,” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (2015). I am grateful to University of Chicago Press and University of Nebraska Press for permission to republish the contents of these articles.
Introduction

Intersex Matters
There are humans … who live and breathe in the interstices of this binary relation, showing that it is not exhaustive; it is not necessary.
—Judith Butler 1
Intersex is an umbrella term for the myriad characteristics of people born with sexual anatomies that various societies deem to