Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Feminist Theory, Judith Quiney, Jane Austen
25 Apr 2014
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A professor of biology and women"s studies at brown university. Writes and researches on issues of gender identity a revision of an essay she wrote in 1993. People whose bodies, chromosomes or hormones contain characteristics of both sexes. State of one"s gender identity or gender expression not matching one"s assigned sex. F-s cites momentas a watershed in the evolving discussion about how to treat children with ambiguous gentitilia. Idealized, platonic, biological world = human beings are divided into two kinds. Dimorphic species males- x and y chromosome, testes, a penis and clearly defined secondary sex characteristics like muscles and facial hair female -xx chromosomes, ovaries, a system to support pregnancy and feral development and definable secondary sex characteristics. Represents all chromosomal, anatomical and hormonal exception to dimorphic ideal. Number who might be subject to surgery as past 100 years or so, physicians have been the ones to define children as intersexual.
