TY - BOOK AU - Amato,Viola TI - Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture SN - 9783839434192 PB - transcript Verlag KW - Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Social sciences KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - This book explores representations of intersex â€" intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category â€" in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/694820b0-a4f9-4371-8d66-f5d90ff668b1 ER -