{"product_id":"envisioning-african-intersex-9781478019619","title":"Envisioning African Intersex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim hermaphroditism and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.\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":49409011515735,"sku":"9781478019619","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019619.jpg?v=1730505083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/envisioning-african-intersex-9781478019619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}