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Intersexuality
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 Hermaphrodites
and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat
Dreger
Drawing on remarkable case studies, scholar Alice
Dreger explores encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with
"ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical profession of
late 19th-century Britain and France. Comparing protocols applied
today in similar situations, this meticulously researced book will
compel the attention of anyone interested in the meanings and
foundations of sexual identity. 24 photos.
Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book
explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people
born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and
scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger
focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth
century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While
feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly
questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical
hermaphrodites suggested a deeper question: just how many human
sexes are there? Ultimately hermaphrodites led doctors and
scientists to another surprisingly difficult question: what is sex,
really?
“Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of
Sex" takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why
medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as
they did, and especially how the material conformation of
hermaphroditic bodies--when combined with social exigencies--forced
peculiar constructions. Throughout the book Dreger indicates how
this history can help us to understand present-day
conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality. This leads to an
epilogue, where the author discusses and questions the protocols
employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born
hermaphroditic). Given the history she has recounted, should these
protocols be reconsidered and revised?
A meticulously researched account of a fascinating
problem in the history of medicine, this book will compel the
attention of historians, physicians, medical ethicists, intersexuals
themselves, and anyone interested in the meanings and foundations of
sexual identity.
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Die Arbeitsgruppe gegen Gewalt in der Pädiatrie und
Gynäkologie (AGGPG) gündete sich am 8. März 1996 nach einer
Diskussionsrunde zur genitalen Verstümmelung vorwiegend in
afrikanischen Ländern. Dort zeigte sich die Notwendigkeit,
spezifisch auf die Situation inter sexueller Menschen (dem Volksmund
als Zwitter oder Hermaphroditen bekannt), vor allem Kindern,
hinweisen zu müssen.
Die AGGPG ist keine feste Gruppe oder ein e.V.,
sondern eine non-profit Initiative ohne zweckgebundene Finanzmittel
zur Wahrung der Autonomie mit Website und Kontaktmöglichkeit.
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An organization of parents, families, individuals
and professionals whose goal is to receive and provide support and
information to those who are born with ambiguous genitalia.
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We are a support group providing information and
support to young people and adults with complete and partial
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, and to parents of AIS youngsters.
We also support those affected by Swyer's syndrome (XY gonadal
dysgenesis), 5 alpha-reductase deficiency, leydig cell hypoplasia,
Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, Mullerian dysgenesis,
Mullerian duct aplasia, vaginal atresia, and other related
conditions.
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This is a Hypospadias Support Group for Parents
and Patients.
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The Mission of the Intersex Society is to end
shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with
atypical sex anatomy.
The Intersex Society of
North America (ISNA) is an education, advocacy, and peer support
organization which works to create a
world free of shame, secrecy, and unwanted surgery for intersex
people (individuals born with anatomy or
physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female).
Examples of medical diagnoses
which result in intersexuality are: "clitoromegaly, micropenis,
hypospadias, ambiguous genitals, early genital surgery, adrenal
hyperplasia, Klinefelter Syndrome, androgen insensitivity,
testicular feminization."
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The Intersex Voices page is written by intersexed
people and is presented as an alternative voice to the writings
which have heretofore appeared almost exclusively in the medical
press, written by non-intersexed people. What you will find here are
our voices, our experiences, our views and feeling about ourselves,
our lives in the past and in the present.
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