In questa sezione proponiamo un elenco di testi che approfondiscono importanti aspetti etici, psicologici, antropologici e sociali legati alle Differenze dello Sviluppo del Sesso/tratti intersex, con particolare attenzione critica al ruolo finora svolto in questo ambito dalla scienza medica.
Documenti
Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica (2010), I Disturbi della Differenziazione Sessuale nei minori: aspetti bioetici.
Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (2015), Human Rights and Intersex People – Issue paper.
De Bruyn P. (2017), Promoting the human rights of and eliminating discrimination against intersex people (rapporto per l’Assemblea Parlamentare del Consiglio d’Europa).
Human Rights Watch & InterACT (2017), “I want to be like nature made me”, Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US.
United Nations Human Rights Council (2013), Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez.
Libri
Balocchi, M., a cura di, (2019), Intersex: Antologia Multidisciplinare, Edizioni ETS;
Colapinto, J. (2000), As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, Harper Collins;
Crocetti, D. (2013), L’invisibile Intersex: Storie di Corpi Medicalizzati, Edizioni ETS;
D’Alberton, F. (2018) Bambini in Ospedale: un Approccio Psicoanalitico, Franco Angeli;
Davis, G. (2015), Contesting Intersex: the Dubious Diagnosis, New York University Press;
Dreger, A. (1999), Intersex in the Age of Ethics, Frederick Maryland: University Publishing Group;
Dreger, A. (1998), Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Harvard University Press;
Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000), Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Basic Books;
Feder, E.K. (2014), Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine, Indiana University Press;
Gómez, M. (2022), La rebelión de las hienas: relatos corporales de personas intersex, Bellaterra Edicions;
Holmes, M. (2009) Critical Intersex, Ashgate Press;
Karkazis K. (2008), Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, Duke University Press;
Kessler, S.J. (1998), Lessons from the Intersexed, Rutgers University Press;
Liao, L.-M., (2022), Variations in Sex Development: Medicine, Culture and Psychological Practice, Cambridge University Press;
Lohman, E. & S. (2018), Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child, Jessica Kinglsey Publishers;
Preves, S.E. (2003), Intersex and Identity: the Contested Self, Rutgers University Press;
Sytsma, E.S (2006), Ethics and Intersex, Springer.