Boy or Girl: Choose Only One
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/16/boy-or-girl-choose-only-one/12/16/2008
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience is a thoughtful study of the medical treatment of intersex, or what is sometimes called disorders of sex development (DSD). Intersex is an umbrella term that covers a variety of ways in which a child's genitals to do not match typical male or female appearance. The author Katrina Karkazis, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford, writes that "I hope to show how the lens of gender literally shapes the body, and what this means for individuals who undergo treatment procedures and interventions for intersexuality," (14); and she does exactly that.
