Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?

Intersex persons are eclipsed by social myths on hermaphrodism and the third sex. However, some who have politicised themselves are demanding that non-consensual interventions practiced by medicine on them in order to conform their bodies to the male and female norms stop. Aware of this critique, me...

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Main Author: Janik Bastien Charlebois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Les Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 2017-12-01
Series:Socio
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/socio/2945
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description Intersex persons are eclipsed by social myths on hermaphrodism and the third sex. However, some who have politicised themselves are demanding that non-consensual interventions practiced by medicine on them in order to conform their bodies to the male and female norms stop. Aware of this critique, medical professionals who invest themselves in intersex management invalidate it on the grounds that intersex people openly critiquing them are rare. In order to understand the limited numbers of politicised intersex people speaking publicly, I will mobilize the concepts of political subjectification laid out by Lamoureux (2001) and de Gaulejac (2007), as well as that of epistemic injustice, produced by Fricker (2007). From empirical data as well as experiential knowledge gathered through my involvement on the ground as an openly intersex researcher, I will lay out the institutional mechanisms framing the possibilities of seeing oneself as intersex, as well as the components required for the development of an actor-subject position.
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title Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?
title_full Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?
title_fullStr Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?
title_full_unstemmed Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?
title_short Les sujets intersexes peuvent-ils (se) penser ?
title_sort les sujets intersexes peuvent ils se penser
topic epistemic injustice
intersex
political subjectification
actor-subject
hermeneutical marginalisation
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