Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience

by Hilary Malatino and Hil Malatino

Book Overview

Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.

Malatino traces both institutional and interpersonal failures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803295936
• ISBN13: 9780803295933
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"