Category: Intersex
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Book release: La norme du corps hybride
I am delighted to announce the release of the book (in French) La norme du corps hybride, drawn from my thesis in Cultural and Biological Anthropology (QUT, Brisbane and CNRS, France). The book is nicely illustrated by the physician Mélanie Sustersic. You will find few illustrations as attachments. The book addresses fundamental topics with regard…
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Comic strip 4. Hermaphroditus
GENDER STUDIES Hermaphroditus, the two-sexed child of Aphrodite and Hermes, “intersex” generic name (when there is a lack of concordance between the genetic sex and the anatomical one). Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified…