TY - BOOK ID - 118354127 TI - Envisioning African intersex : challenging colonial and racist legacies in South African medicine AU - Swarr, Amanda Lock AU - Amanda Lock Swarr PY - 2023 SN - 1478024240 1478093765 1478016973 1478019611 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Intersex people KW - Discrimination against intersex people KW - Racism in medicine KW - Scientific racism KW - Medical care KW - Political activity KW - Gross, Sally, KW - Semenya, Caster, KW - South Africa. KW - Race science KW - Racial science KW - Pseudoscience KW - Racism KW - Medical racism KW - Medicine KW - Hermaphrodites (Persons) KW - Hermaphroditic people KW - Inter* individuals KW - Intersex-identified people KW - Intersexed people KW - Intersexual people KW - Intersexuals (Persons) KW - Persons KW - Gross, Selwyn, KW - África del Sur KW - África do Sul KW - Afrika Selatan KW - Afrique du Sud KW - Azania KW - Dél-Afrika KW - Dél-Afrikai Köztársaság KW - Derom Afriḳah KW - Dorem-Afriḳe KW - Güney Afrika KW - Güney Afrika Cumhuriyeti KW - iRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika KW - iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika KW - iRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika KW - iRiphabliki yomZantsi Afrika KW - I͡U.A.R. KW - I͡UAR KW - I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskai͡a Respublika KW - I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskiĭ Soi͡uz KW - Janūb Ifrīqiy KW - Jihoafrická republika KW - Juhoafrická republika KW - Jumhūrīyat Janūb Ifrīqiy KW - Južná Afrika KW - Južnoafrički savez KW - Minami Afurika Kyōwakoku KW - Nan Fei KW - Nan Fei Gongheguo KW - Nanfei KW - Nanfei Gongheguo KW - Repabliki ya Afrika-Borwa KW - Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa KW - Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa KW - Repubblica del Sud Africa KW - Republic of South Africa KW - República da África do Sul KW - República de Sudáfrica KW - Republiek van Suid-Afrika KW - Republik Südafrika KW - Republik Suedafrika KW - Republika Południowej Afryki KW - République Sud Africaine KW - Riphabliki ya Afrika Dzonga KW - Riphabul̳iki ya Afurika Tshipembe KW - RSA KW - Sud África KW - Sudáfrica KW - Südafrika KW - Suid-Afrika KW - Unie van Suid-Afrika KW - Union of South Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118354127 AB - "Since the early seventeenth century, travelers, scientists, and doctors have falsely claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among Black South Africans. Envisioning African Intersex debunks these claims and interrogates how contemporary intersex medicine is embedded in colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Amanda Lock Swarr centers the insights of activists such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. She also examines the case of Caster Semenya, whose 800m world championship in 2009 was followed by a decade-long public scrutiny of her gender and forced experimental medical interrogations. The volume celebrates African intersex activists' strategies for inciting policy and protocol changes. Visual representations are one of the primary ways ideas about raced intersex are manipulated by doctors and reclaimed by activists, so each chapter evaluates photographs, drawings, films, videos, medical imaging, and memes. Envisioning African Intersex exposes the citational chains of erroneous raced claimed that underpin medical premises about so-called "hermaphroditism," and unseats them with activists' challenges to medical violence and articulations of new decolonial visions of gender"-- ER -