Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
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Book Synopsis: Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people. Malatino traces both institutional and interpersonal failures to dignify non–sexually dimorphic bodies and examines how the ontology of gender difference developed by modern sexologists conflicts with embodied experience. Malatino comprehensively shows how gender-normalizing practices begin at the clinic but are amplified thereafter through mechanisms of institutional exclusion and through Eurocentric culture’s cis-centric and bio-normative notions of sexuality, reproductive capacity, romantic partnership, and kinship. Combining personal accounts with archival evidence, Queer Embodiment presents intersexuality as the conceptual center of queerness, the figure through which nonnormative genders and desires are and have been historically understood. We must reconsider the medical, scientific, and philosophical discourse on intersexuality underlying contemporary understandings of sexed selfhood in order to understand gender anew as a process of becoming that exceeds restrictive binary logic.
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Are you ready to explore the fascinating intersection of critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research? Look no further than Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience. This groundbreaking book by Hil Malatino delves deep into the complexities of having a legible body in the Western society. Discover how intersexuality has been stigmatized and pathologized, and learn how contesting these harmful narratives can fuel medical reform and advance human rights for intersex and trans individuals. With a blend of personal accounts and extensive research, Queer Embodiment invites you to challenge conventional beliefs and reimagine the ontology of gender difference.
Unlock the hidden truths behind the normative practices that originate at the clinic but continue to pervade every aspect of our lives. Explore the profound impact of Eurocentric culture's cis-centric and bio-normative notions of sexuality, reproductive capacity, romantic partnership, and kinship. Queer Embodiment presents intersexuality as the essential core of queerness, shedding new light on the historical understanding of nonnormative genders and desires. It's time to deconstruct the restrictive binary logic that has limited our perception of gender and embrace a process of becoming that empowers everyone.
Embark on a transformative journey through the pages of Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience. Join the movement for inclusive practices, challenge the status quo, and pave the way for a more accepting and compassionate society. Don't miss out on this opportunity to bring about real change. Get your copy now!
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