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Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

datacite.subject.fos oecd::Social sciences
dc.contributor.author Swarr, Amanda Lock
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-26T07:17:41Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-26T07:17:41Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description Publisher: Duke University Press; License: CC-BY-NC; Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv37c06h4; Pages: 240
dc.description.abstract Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex 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 unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes. All author royalties from Envisioning African Intersex will be donated to Intersex South Africa.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-47802-424-8
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/6518
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject Gender Studies
dc.subject History
dc.subject African Studies
dc.subject Sociology
dc.title Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
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