Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1 WHAT IS INTERSEXUALITY? HISTORY AND THEORY
6. 1. Taxonomies of Intersexuality to the 1950s 31
7. 2. Complicating Sex, Routinizing Intervention: The Development of the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 47
8. 3. From Socialization to Hardwire: Challenges to the Traditional Treatment Paradigm 63
9. PART 2 MAKING DECISIONS FOR AND ABOUT A BABY WITH AN INTERSEX DIAGNOSIS
10. 4. Boy or Girl? Bodies of Mixed Evidence and Gender Assignment 89
11. 5. Fixing Sex: Surgery and the Production of Normative Sexuality 133
12. PART 3 LIVING THE MEDICALIZED BODY
13. 6. Wanting and Deciding What Is Best: Parents’ Experiences 179
14. 7. Growing Up under the Medical Gaze: Adults’ Experiences 216
15. 8. The Intersex Body in the World: Activism and Social and Medical Change 236
16. Notes 291
17. References 321
18. Index 343