Discursive Intersexions : : Daring Bodies between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir / / Michaela Koch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Koch, Michaela,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Praktiken der Subjektivierung ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Facing the Octopus --; PART I: Hermaphrodite Narratives --; At a Glance I: Hermaphrodite History --; Truth or Dare --; PART II: Intersex Narratives --; At a Glance II: Intersex History --; Facts and Figures of Speech in Science and Activism --; Hermaphroditus ♥ Middlesex: Novel Interpretations of Old Myth --; Intersex in Pieces --; Conclusion: Teaching the Octopus --; Appendix Bodies beyond the Binary in Books and Movies: An Anglophone Chronology --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839437056; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110548242; 9783110638516; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839437056?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michaela Koch.

Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions.