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Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and ‘sex change’ in Britain 1930–1955

The medical ‘management’ of individuals with atypical sex characteristics, or intersex variations, has been under scrutiny since the beginnings of intersex activism in the 1990s. This article explores a history of intersex surgeries in Britain and the interaction with medical and popular discourses...

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Autor principal: Griffiths, David Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717740339
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spelling pubmed-58365252018-03-20 Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and ‘sex change’ in Britain 1930–1955 Griffiths, David Andrew Sexualities Articles The medical ‘management’ of individuals with atypical sex characteristics, or intersex variations, has been under scrutiny since the beginnings of intersex activism in the 1990s. This article explores a history of intersex surgeries in Britain and the interaction with medical and popular discourses around ‘sex-change’ between 1930 and 1955. A focus on this period in Britain helps to critically elaborate on debates in intersex scholarship; provides historical context for the introduction of approaches and protocols based on John Money and colleagues’ work in the USA in the mid-century; and analyses a long history of tension and intersection between trans and intersex experiences, treatments, politics and popular representations that continue into the present. SAGE Publications 2018-01-17 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5836525/ /pubmed/29568226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717740339 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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