Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex

1. Introduction.- Part I Representing Intersex.- 2. Intersex in Fictional Films Throughout History: Towards a Cinema of Inclusion?.- 3. 'Declining to Describe': Intersex Narrators and Textual Visibility.- 4. The Importance of Narrative in Intersex Representation: A Literary Reading of John Money's Case Histories.- 5. Toxic Sexing: Aaron Apps' Intersex Poetics in Our Chemically Altered Age.- 6. 'This Is What I Am and Who I Am': Exploring Authorship and Ethics in Intersex Research and Reflective Diaries.- 7. When Bioethics Fails: Intersex, Epistemic Injustice and Advocacy.- 8. Afterword to "Representing Intersex".- Part II Global Intersex.- 9. Examining Autonomy and Consent in Gender Assignment Decisions on Intersex People in India.- 10. An Apparent Paradox: The Bio-medicalisation of Intersex Variations in Italy.- 11. A Critical Analysis of The Transgender (Intersex) Persons Act, 2018, in Pakistan Versus United Nations Recommendations.- 12. Towards an Inclusive Approach to Harmful Practices: The Case of Western Elective Surgeries on Intersex Children.- 13. The Geneticisation of Intersex Bodies in Israel.- 14. Western Management of Intersex and the Myth of Patient-Centred Care.- 15. Global Intersex, an Afterword: Global Medicine, Connected Communities, and Universal Human Rights.

Megan Walker is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on exploring intersex narratives in a range of texts and she has a keen interest in further developing intersex knowledge, visibility and acceptance in academia and beyond.