Envisioning African Intersex

Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

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Lock Swarr, Amanda
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English
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Abstract
Amanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99567
Keywords
gender, colonialism, scientific racism, photography, sport, activism
DOI
10.1215/9781478024248
ISBN
9781478093763, 9781478016977, 9781478019619
Publisher
Duke University Press
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http://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, 2023
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Duke University Press Books
Classification
Gay & Lesbian studies
African history
Black & Asian studies
Pages
245
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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