Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD

Surya Monro is Professor in Sociology and Social Policy based at Loughborough University, UK. Surya has published substantially in the fields of gender, sex, and sexuality, notably on LGBT and on Intersex issues. She is the author of Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism, and Sexual Diversity (2005) and co-editor of Queer in Africa (2018).Adeline Berry is a transgender and intersex research fellow at the University of Huddersfield. Their PhD research focuses on the life experiences and needs of older European intersex people. Their research interests include mental health, healthcare, gender, sex, sex work, and epistemic injustice.Morgan Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Practice at Sydney Health Ethics in the University of Sydney School of Public Health. His doctoral research focused on epistemic injustice and the human rights and health of people with innate variations of sex characteristics. Morgan Carpenter has lived experience of an innate variation of sex characteristics.Daniela Crocetti is a Research Fellow in medical anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. Their research has addressed the social history of the gendered body, genetic testing, rights mobilisation in medical contexts, intersex rights, and parenting journeys.Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Since graduating from Williams, he has worked on many research projects that amplify the voices of queer, transgender, and people of colour communities. Saifa was a Marie Skłowdoska-Curie fellow on the INIA project and received his PhD from the University of Huddersfield in April 2024.

"Stunningly far-reaching and extensively researched, Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Critical Approaches demonstrates intersex issues are not merely those of sex and gender, but also race, age, sexuality, location, and colonization. Uniquely intersectional and interdisciplinary, the authors offer novel conceptual approaches to social policy, medicine, sociology of sex, theorizing the body, and activism that can be mobilized by scholars across disciplines. This book is also an urgent invitation to intersectional thinkers and those in social scientific fields to take up interphobia as a serious point of inquiry. It is outstanding!"Celeste Orr, Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton Campus, Canada"Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Critical Approaches is an essential read, offering global perspectives on intersex and centering the work of intersex scholars. Featuring original research into areas that have historically been overlooked in empirical analysis such as intersex aging, it presents a critical contribution to the social sciences and beyond. It spans an array of fields, incorporating not only scholarly insights but also reports and resources from organizations at the forefront of intersex advocacy. Thoroughly documented and deeply relevant, Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Critical Approaches promises to be a landmark resource for researchers and pedagogies."Dr. Amanda Swarr, Professor, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, USA"This ambitious, timely, and comprehensive volume reverses a longstanding social erasure of people with variations of sex characteristics. On the one hand, it places their lives in the broadest possible frame, investigating issues of health, power, injustice, activism, embodiment, and human rights, all while resisting reductionist simplifications. On the other hand, it makes an emphatic claim for what a reconceived critical intersex studies—drawing on the legacies of intersectional feminism, queer theory, and disability studies—can offer to social theory generally, as well as to our collective visions of a more just future."Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, USA

• 1. Introduction to Variations of Sex Characteristics, Intersex, and DSD2. Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Understanding people’s lived experiences3. Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics and DSD: Social Theories4. Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics and DSD: Critical approaches to medicine and healthcare5. Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Activism, Advocacy and Alliances6. Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics and DSD: International dynamics7. Intersex, Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics, and DSD: Human Rights, Equalities and Citizenship