Lessons from the Intersexed ebook
by Suzanne J. Kessler
Suzanne Kessler (born October 13, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American social psychologist known for the application of ethnomethodology to gender.
Suzanne Kessler (born October 13, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American social psychologist known for the application of ethnomethodology to gender. She and Wendy McKenna pioneered this application of ethnomethodology to the study of gender and sex with their groundbreaking work, Gender an Ethnomethodological Approach. Twenty years later, Kessler extended this work in a second book, Lessons from the Intersexed.
A more complete (and accurate) title for this book might have been: Lessons from Intersexed Individuals Who Disagree with the Treatment Decisions Taken for Them When They Were Children
Only 2 left in stock (more on the way). A more complete (and accurate) title for this book might have been: Lessons from Intersexed Individuals Who Disagree with the Treatment Decisions Taken for Them When They Were Children.
This is a brave book Suzanne J. Kessler is professor of psychology at Purchase College, State.
This is a brave book. Kessler says things that need to be said, and she says them clearly, concisely, and with respect for the people whose lives are most affected by the questions she confronts. A must read for anyone concerned with intersex issues. Lessons from the Intersexed explores the possibilities and implications of suspending a commitment to two "natural" genders. It addresses gender destabilization issues arising from intersexuality and compels a rethinking of the meaning of gender, genitals, and sexuality. Suzanne J. Kessler is professor of psychology at Purchase College, State University of New York.
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Within Lessons from the intersexed Kessler challenges the strategies of the medical profession in their ‘diagnosis’ and . Although Kessler’s work is pragmatic, it does not fail to offer the ‘gender scholar’ a theoretical perspective.
Within Lessons from the intersexed Kessler challenges the strategies of the medical profession in their ‘diagnosis’ and ‘treatment’ of intersexed conditions. Kessler’s analytic engagement locates two main concerns with the medical profession’s diagnosis and treatment of contemporary intersexed conditions. Firstly the criteria that determines diagnosis and treatment decisions, such as surgery, surgery that the Intersexed Movement has called ‘Intersex Genital Mutilation’.
Kessler tells us the intersexed "real lives stories" of pain and suffering. She deconstructs the medical retoric as to how doctors "enforce gender" while inflicting both physical and psychic harm on their intersexed patiennts
Kessler tells us the intersexed "real lives stories" of pain and suffering. She deconstructs the medical retoric as to how doctors "enforce gender" while inflicting both physical and psychic harm on their intersexed patiennts.
Parents of intersexed children are rarely heard from, but in this book they provide another perspective on reasons for genital surgeries and the quality of medical and psychological management. Although physicians educate parents about how to think about their children's condition, Kessler learned from parents of intersexed children that some parents are able to accept atypical genitals.
Suzanne J. Kessler is an American professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Purchase
Suzanne J. Kessler is an American professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Purchase. She is also a social psychologist known for the application of ethnomethodology to gender. Kessler proved that normative tables for clitoral length appeared in the late 1980s, while normative tables for penis length appeared more than forty years before that.
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From the moment intersexuality-the condition of having physical gender markers (genitals, gonads, or chromosomes) that are neither clearly female nor male-is suspected and diagnosed, social institutions are mobilized in order to maintain the two seemingly objective sexual categories. Infants' bodies are altered, and what was "ambiguous" is made "normal." Kessler's interviews with pediatric surgeons and endocrinologists reveal how the intersex condition is normalized for parents and she argues that the way in which intersexuality is managed by the medical and psychological professions displays our culture's beliefs about gender and genitals.
Parents of intersexed children are rarely heard from, but in this book they provide another perspective on reasons for genital surgeries and the quality of medical and psychological management. Although physicians educate parents about how to think about their children's condition, Kessler learned from parents of intersexed children that some parents are able to accept atypical genitals. Based on analysis of the medical literature and interview with adults who had received treatment as interesexed children, Kessler proposes new approaches for physicians to use in talking with parents and children. She also evaluates the appearance of a politicized vanguard, many of who are promoting an intersexual identity, who seek to alter the way physicians respond to intersexuality.
Kessler explores the possibilities and implications of suspending a commitment to two "natural" genders and addresses gender destabilization issues arising from intersexuality. She thus compels readers to re-think the meaning of gender, genitals, and sexuality.
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