An orientation towards consensus: Situating the somatechnics of intersex.
Synopsis: This presentation will explore the critique of the pathologization of intersex put forth by intersex activists and advocacy organizations and feminist allies by situating specific practices and strategies in material and discursive contexts, using the differences and similarities between US and Swedish contexts as a case study. I will argue that processes of biomedicalisation (as described by medical sociologists Adele Clarke et al) have transformed biomedicine as a knowledge- and technology-producing domain in ways that have affected clinical practices as well as the conditions for organizing resistance towards clinical management. I will also argue that an orientation towards consensus sets boundaries for how feminist critique is formulated and enacted.
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Julia Benjaminson
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Centrum för genusvetenskap
Uppsala Universitet
