Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Sex/Gender and Self-Determination: Policy Developments in Law, Health and Pedagogical Contexts
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The scope of sex/gender embodiment and self-determination
  • Sex/gender assignments
  • Sex and gender
  • From biologism to feminism to new materialism
  • Sex/gender self-determination in neoliberal times
  • Biopolitics, bioethics and policy
  • Autonomy
  • Bodily integrity
  • The right to choose one's sex/gender
  • Concluding remarks
  • 2 The desire for (political) self-determination
  • Introduction
  • Self-determination: a legacy from revolution
  • Social cont(r)act
  • Structure/agency
  • A critique of value
  • Political and ethical self-determination and biopolitics
  • Personal self-determination
  • Ethical co-determination and bodily integrity
  • Self-determination and the healthcare professions
  • Conscientious objection and clinicians' bodily integrity rights
  • Concluding remarks
  • 3 Medical governance and governing the healthcare assemblage
  • Introduction
  • A brief history of medical self-governance
  • Registering and licensing physicians
  • Professional prestige and the connection to health science
  • Crafting knowledge
  • Medical surveillance
  • The changing role of the patient
  • Education and policy for improving the safety and quality of care
  • Psychiatry and sexology, a becoming discipline
  • Concluding remarks
  • 4 (Self- )determining trans, sex/gender expansive and intersex people
  • Introduction
  • A brief history of sex/gender variance in psychiatric clinics
  • International (psychiatric) diagnostic developments
  • Consequences of pathologization
  • Sense-impressions of trans, sex/gender expansive and intersex people
  • Precocious or delayed puberty and medical sense-impressions
  • Not competent enough to self-determine their treatment!
  • Sex/gender self-determination as political healthcare praxis
  • Informed consent models
  • International medico-legal assemblages and self-determination
  • Concluding remarks
  • 5 Self-determination in school cultures
  • Introduction
  • Contextualizing schooling in the UK and internationally
  • Sex/gender coercion
  • Sex/gender policing
  • Social transitions in supportive homes
  • Co-producing sex/gender at school
  • Social transitions
  • Backlash
  • School receptivity, policy and procedures
  • Concluding remarks
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover