Lessons from the intersexed suzanne kessler fascinating in what it tells us not only about situations in which sex assignment is uncertain but about the astonishingly weak empirical foundations on which the medical orthodoxies of binary sex and gender are built. Lessons from the intersexed explores the possibilities and implications of suspending a commitment to two natural genders it addresses gender destabilization issues arising from intersexuality and compels a rethinking of the meaning of gender genitals and sexuality. Note 5 retrouvez lessons from the intersexed et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. From the moment intersexuality the condition of having physical gender markers genitals gonads or chromosomes that are neither clearly female nor male is suspected and diagnosed social institutions are mobilized in order to maintain the two seemingly objective sexual categories. In lessons from the intersexed suzanne j kesslers book of interviews and analysis the author professor of psychology at purchase college state university of new york quotes toby who considers a self definition to be neuter and nonsexual saying i am as i was meant to be toby is trying on the internet to form a group of like minded persons if my genital anatomy is other than male or female this is not a deformity or a defect i affirm my capacity to be whole as an asexual