Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18556
Title: Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia
Contributor(s): Jones, Tiffany  (author); Hart, Bonnie (author); Carpenter, Morgan (author); Ansara, Gavi (author); Leonard, William (author); Lucke, Jayne (author)
Publication Date: 2016
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0089
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18556
Abstract: Sex is complex. Humans are simultaneously more similar in their sex development, and more diverse, than is commonly appreciated or understood. Females and males are not made of wildly different ingredients. The potential to have intersex variations - to be born with atypical sex characteristics - exists for all humans in the first few weeks of their prenatal development. 1.7% of people actually go on to be born intersex. However, most of us know little about intersex variations. This is only partly due to their occasional invisibility. Intersex people have historically faced deep social stigma - the assumption that they were simply bizarre aberrations from the human norm. Furthermore, intersex infants have been widely subjected to systematic institutional mistreatment, particularly within medical settings. Finally, some people with intersex variations have simply tried to integrate themselves unnoticed into the socially accepted categories of male and female. Drawing on stories and statistics from the first national study of intersex the book argues for a distinct 'Intersex Studies' framework to address intersex issues and identity - foregrounding people with intersex variations' own goals, perspectives and experiences. Collected in 2015 and arranged in thematic chapters, the data presented here on 272 individuals gives a penetrating account of historically and socially obscured experience. This book is an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of human sexuality and a must-read for people with intersex variations, health practitioners, psychologists, advocacy groups, students, and anybody interested in knowing more about our diverse human make-up.
Publication Type: Book
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Place of Publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781783742127
9781783742080
9781783742097
9781783742103
9781783742110
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education
111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 390406 Gender, sexuality and education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920599 Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) not elsewhere classified
939904 Gender Aspects of Education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160202 Gender aspects in education
HERDC Category Description: A1 Authored Book - Scholarly
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944169674
Extent of Pages: 272
CC License of All Rights Reserved: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
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