{"product_id":"envisioning-african-intersex-9781478016977","title":"Envisioning African Intersex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning African Intersex\u003c\/i\u003e Amanda Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors’ impositions to fashion self-representation. By unse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEnvisioning African Intersex\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and provocative analysis of how medical and scientific authorities have imagined intersex (atypical sex development) in Africa and, just as important, how contemporary South African intersex activists have resisted these racist interpretations.\" -- Elizabeth Reis * Journal of Medical Humanities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: “Hermaphroditism” in Histories of South Africa  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. “Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban”: Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine  49\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya’s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing  102\u003cbr\u003e 5. Toward an “African Intersex Reference of Intelligence”: Directions in Intersex Organizing  132\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex  156\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  161\u003cbr\u003e Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross  165\u003cbr\u003e Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya  167\u003cbr\u003e Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020)  169\u003cbr\u003e Notes  171\u003cbr\u003e References  207\u003cbr\u003e Index  231","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409004863831,"sku":"9781478016977","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016977.jpg?v=1730505056","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/envisioning-african-intersex-9781478016977","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}