Online Intersex Communities: Virtual Neighborhoods of Support and Activism"Brian Still's rhetorical analysis of a select number of key intersex web sites, supplemented with interviews of leading intersex activists and scholars, allows us to take a previously unexplored critical approach to comprehending the medicalization of intersexuality as well as the online communities that have, in the ongoing production of themselves, shaped productive resistance to it. Drawing on the ideas of Arjun Appadurai, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and also Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay, Still points out that because society values (perhaps now more than before) the words of "wounded storytellers," or those who do not treat but have been treated (and in many cases traumatized), then intersex activists can speak with a measure of newfound authority, taking advantage of a media capable of disseminating the meanings they create so that they are more accessible and, consequently, more influential in re-shaping what it means to be normal."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
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American Academy of Pediatrics | 26 |
Online Intersex Narrative | 36 |
Virtual Intersex Neighborhoods | 45 |
Bonding | 67 |
Giving Back to the Community | 88 |
Organisation Internationale | 103 |
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