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• Insights into activist foundations and (hi)stories of intersex studies
• Critical perspectives on the medical treatment of intersex people as violent enforcement of binary sex and gender norms
• Knowledge and critical reflexion of current developments in the German-speaking area
• Understanding of activist and interdisciplinary connections and potentials of intersex studies
• Exemplary Reflexion of questions of intersex visibility and representation  

The course introduces several different domains of intersex studies as a resistant and power critical research movement that crucially builds on activist knowledge production and on the life experiences of intersex people themselves. Through four thematic units, we deal with activist foundations and resources (1), focus medicine criticism as a central area of action for intersex studies (2), reflect on intersectional relations as well as connection and tension lines with other resistant research fields (3) and consider potentials and problems of intersex visibility and representation based on selected examples (4).

Text/image/film discussions, group work, presentations/discussion moderations

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texts and contributions from (a.o.):

Haller, P. / Pertl, L. / Ponzer, T. (Hrsg., 2022): Inter*Pride. Perspektiven aus einer weltweiten Menschenrechtsbewegung. w_orten&meer.

Walker, M. (Hrsg., 2022): Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wolff, M. / Rubin, D.A. / Lock Swarr, A. (Hrsg., 2022): The Intersex Issue. Transgender Studies Quarterly 9/2.

Böhm, L. / Kromminga, I.A. / Matthigack, E.B. (2022): Inter*: Eine kurze Einführung. Hrsg. von der Internationalen Vereinigung Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen – OII Germany e.V.

Mader, E. et al. (Hrsg., 2021): Trans* und Inter*Studien - Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.

Hoenes, J. / Januschke, E. / Klöppel, U. (2019): Häufigkeit normangleichender Operationen "uneindeutiger" Genitalien im Kindesalter. Follow-Up Studie. Hrsg. v. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Professur für Gender Studies.

Ghattas, D.C. (2017): Die Menschenrechte intergeschlechtlicher Menschen schützen - Wie können Sie helfen? Hrsg. von OII Europe / OII Germany / ILGA Europe, Übersetzung: E. Köper.

Chase, C.: Hermaphrodites With Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism [1998]. In: Stryker, S. / Whittle, S. (Hrsg., 2006): The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, S. 300-314.

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If there are any questions please contact gender-studies@uibk.ac.at