Introductory resources

This page provides a list of books and web resources that will introduce the non-specialist to critical thinking and practice in intersex/dsd:

  • Accord Alliance. Resource set up by the founder and members of the Intersex Society of N. America (ISNA) when ISNA closed in 2008. www.accordalliance.org
  • Callahan, G.N. (2009) 'Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes' (Chicago Review Press).
  • Cornwall, S. (2010) 'Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology' (Equinox Press UK, 2010).
  • Davis, G. (forthcoming 2015) 'Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis' (New York University Press).
  • Dreger, A. D. (1998) 'Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex' (Harvard U. P.).
  • Dreger, A. D. (1999) 'Intersex in the Age of Ethics.' Special issues of Journal of Clinical Ethics Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 1998.
  • DSD Guidelines: www.dsdguidelines.org
  • Feder, E.K. (In press 2014) 'Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine' (Indiana U.P.).
  • Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000) 'Sexing the Body' (Basic Books).
  • Fine, C. (2011) 'Delusions of Gender: The Real Science behind Sex Differences' (Icon Books Ltd.).
  • Harper, C. (2007) 'Intersex' (Berg).
  • Holmes, M. (2008) 'Intersex: A Perilous Difference' (Susquehanna U. P.)
  • Jordan-Young, R. (2010) 'Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences' (Harvard University Press).
  • Karkazis, K. (2008) 'Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience' (Duke U. P.)
  • Kessler, S. J. (1998) 'Lessons from the Intersexed' (Rutgers U. P.).
  • Koyama, E. (2003) 'Teaching Intersex Issues', Confluere Publications, Portland, Oregon (Intersex Initiative Portland). www.ipdx.org/publications/index.html
  • Laqueur, T. (1990) 'Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud' (Cambridge: Harvard U.P.).
  • Reis, E. (2009) 'Bodies in Doubt - An American History of Intersex' (Johns Hopkins U.P.).
  • Schweizer, K. und Richter-Appelt, H. (Hg.) (2012) 'Intersexualitat Kontrovers: Grundlagen, Erfahrungen, Positionen' (Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen).
  • Simmonds, M. (2013) 'Feminist Gender Theory Summary'. Handout prepared for XY-female participants having taken part in PhD study. Unpublished but available at www.aissg.org/PDFs/Gender-Theory-Summary.pdf
  • Still, B. (2008) 'Online Intersex Communities: Virtual Neighborhoods of Support and Activism' (Cambria Press).
  • Van Den Wijngaard, M. (1997) 'Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical Construction of Femininity and Masculinity' (Indiana University Press).