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Menschen, die nicht eindeutig dem männlichen oder weiblichen Geschlecht zugeordnet werden können, sind gesellschaftlichen Stigmatisierungen und medizinisch-psychologischen Pathologisierungen ausgesetzt. Zentrale Studien im deutschsprachigen Raum bestätigen die Notwendigkeit eines fundamentalen Paradigmenwechsels im gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Intergeschlechtlichkeit bzw. Intersexualität. Zwar hat die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema bereits Einzug in den Bildungsbereich erhalten, jedoch existieren bislang keine Veröffentlichungen zur professionellen Beratung von Inters*.Mithilfe der Analyse von Selbstdarstellungen und Expert_innen-Interviews werden im vorliegenden Buch konkrete Impulse und Handlungsempfehlungen für eine inter*-spezifische Beratungspraxis erarbeitet. Interdisziplinarität, Ressourcenorientierung und Personenzentriertheit werden als wichtige Grundpfeiler benannt, die es ermöglichen, neue methodische Denk- und Handlungsmuster zu formulieren. Dabei werden auch bisher bestehende Beratungsansätze und -konzepte aufgegriffen und unter Einbezug von Peers und Selbsthilfegruppen erweitert. So ergeben sich neue methodische Zugänge und Perspektiven, die sich an den Bedürfnissen und Wünschen intergeschlechtlicher Personen orientieren und ihnen Formen der Selbstermächtigung sowie barrierefreie Räume für selbstbestimmtes Agieren eröffnen.Intersex: Stimuli for CounselingPeople whose sex characteristics do not allow to identify them unambiguously as either male or female are exposed to social stigmatization as well as medical and psychological pathologization. Key studies conducted in the German-speaking countries acknowledge the need for a fundamental paradigm shift in the way society deals with intersex. But even though educators have already begun to consider the issue, there are still no publications about professional counseling of intersex people.Analyzing self-portraits and interviews with experts this book works out concrete recommendations and offers stimuli for a counseling practice catering to the specific needs of intersex people. Interdisciplinarity, an orientation to existing resources and a focus on the person are presented as the cornerstones that make it possible to formulate new methodological and action patterns, while existing counseling approaches are taken up and expanded with the involvement of peers and self-help groups. Thus, new perspectives for the self-empowerment of intersex people open, providing them with the barrier-free space necessary for self-determined action.

Intersexuality. --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Sex (Biology)

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Das geschlechtliche Selbsterleben als wesentliches Merkmal menschlicher Identität läuft oftmals der Vorstellung einer bipolaren Geschlechterordnung zuwider. Intersexualität steht quer zu dieser sozialen Geschlechterkonstruktion, die nicht nur in der christlich-theologischen Anthropologie oft als unhinterfragte Leitdifferenz vertreten wird.Ausgehend von medizinisch-biologischen sowie sozialen Aspekten von Intersex wirft Conrad Krannich grundlegende Fragen für die theologische Anthropologie und Ethik auf. Mithilfe klassisch-theologischer Denkfiguren legt er den Konstruktionscharakter der geschaffenen Wirklichkeit offen und ermöglicht so ein Verständnis für die Ambivalenz und Mehrdeutigkeit sexueller Identität. Damit ist auch der Weg zu einem angstfreien Umgang mit den Vieldeutigkeiten menschlicher Existenz eröffnet.

Sex --- Gender identity --- Intersexuality. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Sex (Biology) --- Sex (Theology)

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Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites suggested a deeper question: just how many human sexes are there? Ultimately hermaphrodites led doctors and scientists to another surprisingly difficult question: what is sex, really? Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies--when combined with social exigencies--forced peculiar constructions. Throughout the book Dreger indicates how this history can help us to understand present-day conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality. This leads to an epilogue, where the author discusses and questions the protocols employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born hermaphroditic). Given the history she has recounted, should these protocols be reconsidered and revised? A meticulously researched account of a fascinating problem in the history of medicine, this book will compel the attention of historians, physicians, medical ethicists, intersexuals themselves, and anyone interested in the meanings and foundations of sexual identity.

Intersexuality --- Sex (Psychology) --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Sex (Biology) --- Treatment --- History --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects

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Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie CouricA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWinner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to “protect” the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis’ experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex. Yet, the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality, rather than as a mere biological variation. This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatment.In Contesting Intersex, Davis draws on interviews with intersex people, their parents, and medical experts to explore the oft-questioned views on intersex in medical and activist communities, as well as the evolution of thought in regards to intersex visibility and transparency. She finds that framing intersex as an abnormality is harmful and can alter the course of one’s life. In fact, controversy over this framing continues, as intersex has been renamed a ‘disorder of sex development’ throughout medicine. This happened, she suggests, as a means for doctors to reassert their authority over the intersex body in the face of increasing intersex activism in the 1990s and feminist critiques of intersex medical treatment. Davis argues the renaming of ‘intersex’ as a ‘disorder of sex development’ is strong evidence that the intersex diagnosis is dubious. Within the intersex community, though, disorder of sex development terminology is hotly disputed; some prefer not to use a term which pathologizes their bodies, while others prefer to think of intersex in scientific terms. Although terminology is currently a source of tension within the movement, Davis hopes intersex activists and their allies can come together to improve the lives of intersex people, their families, and future generations. However, for this to happen, the intersex diagnosis, as well as sex, gender, and sexuality, needs to be understood as socially constructed phenomena. A personal journey into medical and social activism, Contesting Intersex presents a unique perspective on how medical diagnoses can affect lives profoundly.Ask us about setting up a Skype-in with the author for your class

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During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations only to have them later reversed by colleagues. While medical experts fought over what separated a man from a woman, novelists began to explore debates about binary sex and describe the experiences of gender-ambiguous characters. Anne Linton discusses over 200 newly-uncovered case studies while offering fresh readings of literature by several famous writers of the period, as well as long-overlooked popular fiction. This landmark contribution to the history of sexuality is the first book to examine intersex in both medicine and literature, sensitively relating historical 'hermaphrodism' to contemporary intersex activism and scholarship.

Intersex people --- Sex determination --- Intersexuality --- History --- Persons --- Hermaphrodites (Persons) --- Hermaphroditic people --- Inter* individuals --- Intersex-identified people --- Intersexed people --- Intersexual people --- Intersexuals (Persons) --- Sex (Biology) --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Determination, Sex