Full Description
Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.
Cripping Intersex examines three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies and procedures; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Celeste E. Orr investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new approach to intersex studies and activism. The integration of feminist disability studies with intersex studies provides tools to break down the traditional sex dyad and the entrenched cultural mandate against intersex traits.
This necessary work offers a radical new understanding of intersex-with-disability, pushing analyses of intersex histories, experience, and embodiment further than feminist or queer theory can do alone.
Contents
Introduction: Intersex and/as/is/with Disability
Part 1: Exorcising Intersex: Mutilation and Medical Malpractice
1 The Question of Health Risks and Intersex Variations
2 Medical Interventions and Acquired Body-Mind Disabilities
3 Is There Medical Recognition of the Disabilities Created?
Part 2: The Racialized Intersex Spectre
4 Temporarily Endosex
5 Cripping Sport Sex Testing
6 Sport Sex and Dis/ability De/segregation
Part 3: New Eugenics: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Compulsory Dyadism
7 Intersex, PGD, and the Eugenic Agenda
8 A Crip Intersex Approach to PGD
Conclusion: Eradicating Exorcisms
Notes; Works Cited; Index
