Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "The World until Yesterday"
"Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year's most gripping novel, except for one thing: her stories are true, and this isn't a novel. Instead, it's an exciting account of complicated good guys and bad guys, and t[...]
This text explores encounters between hermaphrodites - people born with "ambigious" sexual anatomy - and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late 19th century, a moment of great tension for question of sex roles[...]
In this special issue of GLQ, experts from a variety of disciplines discuss the future of treatment for people with intersex conditionsothose born with ambiguous genitaliaoand consider what intersexuality means for theories of gender. By examining the ethics of medical treatment and the repercussion[...]