Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis /

When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to 'protect' the development of her gender identity. It was years before Dav...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Davis, Georgiann (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:	Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Intersex people. Intersexuality > History. Sexual disorders. Disorders of Sex Development. Transgender Persons > psychology. Gender Identity. United States.