{"product_id":"envisioning-african-intersex-challenging-colonial-and-racist-legacies-in-south-african-medicine-paperback","title":"Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Lock Swarr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that \"hermaphroditism\" and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning African Intersex\u003c\/i\u003e Amanda Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors' impositions to fashion self-representation. By unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All author royalties from \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning African Intersex\u003c\/i\u003e will be donated to Intersex South Africa.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda Lock Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eSex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Transnational Feminist Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636193161523,"sku":"9781478019619","price":49.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/6ah7b5NLhF9781478019619.webp?v=1762267965","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/envisioning-african-intersex-challenging-colonial-and-racist-legacies-in-south-african-medicine-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}