Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience / Katrina Karkazis.

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2008.

xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-342) and index.

Taxonomies of intersexuality to the 1950s -- Complicating sex, routinizing intervention : the development of the traditional treatment paradigm -- From socialization to hardwire : challenges to the traditional treatment paradigm -- Boy or girl? : bodies of mixed evidence and gender assignment -- Fixing sex : surgery and the production of normative sexuality -- Wanting and deciding what is best : parents' experiences -- Growing up under the medical gaze : adults' experiences -- The intersex body in the world : activism and social and medical change.