GE CLST M72A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hermaphrodite, Medicalization, Yehoshua Sagi
10 Jan 2017
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Dr. saguy - lecture 8 oct 18th: intersexuality iii. Understand sociological arguments about what medical approaches to intersex reveal about social attitudes to gender. Understand preves" argument about the harm of surgically correcting intersex bodies. Gain familiarity with the sociological concepts of medicalization, symbolic interactionism, labeling theory and stigma and how they are relevant to the medical treatment of intersex. We place such a large emphasis on gender, above all other details about us. Intersex is not the same thing as transgender. Hermaphrodite is technically a term for intersex, but it has fallen out of favor. The medical term is disorders of sexual development (dsd) Fyi: a surgical x and gender assignment are two di erent things a. You could decide to assign your child"s sex and not give them surgery, and vice- versa, or do both, or neither. Brought a lawsuit forward after nding out their adopted baby had sex assignment surgery.
