Intersex

With writings that span three decades, there is no one more qualified to offer directions forward than Morland…Through Intersex, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization and examining the layers of physical and emotional scars that this failed promise created, we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward that eschews sex/gender as a simple binary, embracing those whose bodies defy this false opposition. * Science *
Morland’s vision and approach extend beyond issues of treating intersex conditions, making them essential to anyone invested in promoting bodily autonomy, as well as those seeking to understand and disrupt the reciprocal relationship between medical power and the social management of bodies. * The Gay & Lesbian Review *
Morland offers a comprehensive, in-depth, albeit at times conceptually demanding, analysis of the contradictory logics behind intersex surgery…. Intersex…constitutes a vital and acutely needed critique against medicalization not only within Intersex studies but also across medical humanities, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Critical Trauma scholarship. * Ethnic & Third World Literatures *
A powerful call for intersex demedicalization from one of the leading voices in critical intersex studies. – Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
A smart, lucid, and devastating critique of the medical management of intersex from a major thinker in the field. It should be read by anyone interested in gender, medical ethics, or what it means to live in a body—or to live in a world where some bodies continue to be violated. – Leah DeVun, author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Iain Morland develops a powerful and articulate analysis of the destructive force of medical—and especially surgical—interventions into the bodies and self-representations of intersex infants and children and their lingering effects on the adults they become. This book also attests to and affirms the bodily and psychic resistances, excesses, and forms of creativity that intersex bodies pose to their medical “normalization.” – Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
In an impressively majoritising gesture [Intersex] makes the subject of medicalisation of intersex a matter for all of us since we all live in the world that potentiates and legitimates it. * Lisa Downing, author of Against Affect *

Iain Morland is one of the founding voices in critical intersex studies. He holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, and he has held lectureships at Cardiff University and the University of the Arts London. Morland is coauthor of Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money’s Diagnostic Concepts (2015).

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