The Merited Sex
Abstract
By claiming to fight against various obstacles to women’s identity and sexual well-being, cosmetic surgery of the genitals presents itself as a practice that supports self-entrepreneurship. The authors analyze the discourse of doctors who practice it in French-speaking Switzerland by mobilizing the notion of passing, meaning passing from a category of sex or race to another. They highlight three registers justifying a modification of genital morphology (constitution, age and cultural constrains) and analyse the interwoven relations of gender, age, race and capacity that induce, control and sanction access to these practices of self-transformation.
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Amélie Keyser-Verreault, Élisabeth Mercier
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Recherches féministes Volume 34, numéro 1, 2021, «Esthétique et politiques du corps», pp. 273–291
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French
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Québec
Year:
2021
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Health – medicine
Sexuality
Gender identities
Intersectionality
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Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology
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