Special Section on Sex and Surgery: ‘Doing’ sex and feminist theory

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Davis Noela (2009) ‘New Materialism and Feminism’s Anti-Biologism: A Response to Sara Ahmed’. European Journal of Women’s Studies 16(1): 67–80.

Dolezal Luna (2010) ‘The (In)visible Body: Feminism, Phenomenology and the Case of Cosmetic Surgery’. Hypatia 25(2): 357–375.

Dreger Alice D. (1998a) Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. London: Harvard University Press.

Dreger Alice D. (1998b) ‘“Ambiguous Sex” – or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersexuality’. The Hastings Center Report 28(3): 24–35.

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Fausto-Sterling Anne (2000) Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.

Feder Ellen (2002) ‘Doctor’s Orders: Parents and Intersex Children’. In: Eva Feder Kittay Ellen Feder (eds) The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 294–320.

Fisher Linda Lester E. Embree (2000) Feminist Phenomenology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Heinämaa Sara (2003) Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hird Myra (2000) ‘Gender’s Nature: Intersexuality, Transsexualism and the “Sex”/“Gender” Binary’. Feminist Theory 1(3): 347–364.

Holliday Ruth Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor (2006) ‘Aesthetic Surgery as False Beauty’. Feminist Theory 7(2): 179–195.

Holmes Morgan (2002) ‘Re-thinking the Meaning and Management of Intersexuality’. Sexualities 5(2): 159–180.

Holmes Morgan (2008) Intersex: A Perilous Difference. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press.

Karkazis Katrina (2008) Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority and Lived Experience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kessler Suzanne (1990) ‘The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants’. Signs 1(6): 3–26.

Kessler Suzanne (1998) Lessons from the Intersexed. New York: Rutgers University Press.

Merleau-Ponty Maurice (2006) Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge.

Meyers Diana T. (2000) ‘Feminism and Women’s Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting’. Metaphilosophy 31(5): 469–491.

Morgan Kathryn P. (1991) ‘Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies’. Hypatia 6(3): 25–53.

Morland Iain (2001) ‘Feminism and Intersexuality: A Response to Myra J. Hird’s “Gender’s Nature”’. Feminist Theory 2(3): 362–366.

Morland Iain (2005) ‘“The Glans Opens Like a Book”: Writing and Reading the Intersexed Body’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 19(3): 335–348.

Negrin Llewellyn (2002) ‘Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse of Identity’. Body & Society 8(4): 21–42.

Njambi Wairimu N. (2004) ‘Dualisms and Female Bodies in Representations of African Female Circumcision: A Feminist Critique’. Feminist Theory 5(3): 281–303.

Pedwell Carolyn (2007) ‘Theorizing “African” Female Genital Cutting and “Western” Body Modifications: A Critique of the Continuum and Analogue Approaches’. Feminist Review 6: 45–66.

Sobchack Vivian (2009) ‘Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects’. In: Cressida Heyes Meredith Jones (eds) Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 79–98.

Young Iris Marion (2005) On Female Body Experience: ‘Throwing Like a Girl’ and Other Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zeiler Kristin Lisa Guntram (forthcoming) ‘Excorporation, Affect and Sexed Embodiment as a Style of Being: Examining Young Women’s Experiences of Coming to Know that They Have No Womb and No or a “Small” Vagina’. In: Kristin Zeiler Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds) Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Zeiler Kristin Lisa Folkmarson Käll (forthcoming) Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Zeiler Kristin Anette Wickström (2009) ‘Why Do “We” Perform Surgery on Newborn Intersexed Children? The Phenomenology of the Parental Experience of Having a Child with Intersex Anatomies’. Feminist Theory 10(3): 359–377.