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1) Middlesex
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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"From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns...
3) Intersexion
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The first question any new parent asks, is it a boy or a girl? But what happens when doctors cannot answer that question? One baby in 2,000 is born with genitalia that is so ambiguous that no-one can tell if the child is male or female. In this groundbreaking documentary, intersex individuals reveal the secrets of their unconventional lives, and how they have navigated their way through this strictly male/female world, when they fit somewhere in between....
4) Golden boy
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Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he's the perfect son, the perfect friend, and the perfect crush for the girls in his school. He's even really nice to his little brother. Karen, Max's mother, is determined to maintain the façade of effortless excellence she has constructed through the years, but now that the boys are getting older, she worries that the façade might soon begin to crumble. Adding to the tension, her...
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"Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions--one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children,...
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Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association
Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological Association
A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities
When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered...
7) XXY
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Film Movement volume 6, film 5
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Español
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The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia, ' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
8) Every body
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Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary...
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After school nightmare volume 5
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Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he's neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the "Key"--and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies:...
10) Middlesex
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„Monumentalną sagę o kazirodztwie pisał osiem lat, ale warto było. Na powieść Middlesex spłynęła lawina nagród, z Pulitzerem na czele". Newsweek Polska
„Jedna z ciekawszych amerykańskich powieści ostatnich lat, wyróżniona Nagrodą Pulitzera w 2002 roku. Zaczyna się jak lesbijski romans—nastolatka odkrywa fascynację koleżanką. Ale to dopiero początek szaleńczej rodzinnej sagi, z genetycznymi mutacjami, imperium tureckim,
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As the public becomes more mindful of gender variances, this book examines how more individuals-including young adults-have found the courage to express and celebrate their authentic selves. The book covers differences between biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
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After school nightmare volume 1
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You have just awakened to find your darkest secret revealed to a group of people who would do anything to destroy you: your classmates! That's what happens to Ichijo Mashiro, whose elite school education turns into the most horrifying experience of his life when he's enlisted to participate in an after-hours class. The only way for Mashiro to graduate is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of his worst kind...
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After school nightmare volume 3
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Mashiro, a hermaphrodite high school student, joins a "special" dream class to become completely male but faces obstacles from other students along the way.
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"Intersex bodies have been figured as troubling by doctors, parents, religious institutions and society at large. In this book, scholars draw on constructive and pastoral theologies, biblical studies, and sociology, suggesting intersex's capacity to "trouble" is positive, challenging unquestioned norms and dubious assumptions in religion and beyond"--
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