September 29, 2014
All Day
100 Mendenhall Lab
Event Host: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Ellen Feder presents, "Normalizing Atypical Sex Anatomies: A Question of Ethics or Culture?"
Criticism of normalizing medical interventions for atypical sex anatomies (or “intersex” bodies) has likened these practices to ritual genital cutting in the global south. In reexamining this comparison we may find unexpected insight into the motivation for normalizing genital surgeries in the global north, and encounter, too, troubling questions about the place of ethical deliberation in the care of children with atypical sex anatomies.
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