Hermaphrodite Logic
Hermaphrodite Logic
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Hermaphrodite Logic by Juliana Gleeson
HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC is a bold examination of intersex liberation. Juliana Gleeson reveals how a movement challenged systemic medical abuses to reshape our understanding of sex. Blending philosophical insights and personal testimonies, Gleeson argues that intersex people have been harmed not just for therapeutic reasons but to ease professional and parental anxieties.
As someone with a ringside seat to the emergence of intersex activism in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s--the in-your-face Hermaphrodites With Attitude newsletter was edited by members of my collective household--I'm thrilled to see this short, sharp history of a now-international movementGleeson's critical perspective make a welcome contribution at a time when much of intersex discourse no longer politically challenges medical power. -- Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Hermaphrodite Logic celebrates the history of intersex liberation as a political movement that creates a new ethics of living with the variety of sex. Emerging in the 1990s, Juliana Gleeson traces how this movement countered the scars of medical intervention imposed on the intersex with wit and logic. The result is a moving and sardonic account that speaks of the intersex with a chorus of voices, rupturing the limits of our normative conceptions of gender and sexuality. -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester
Juliana Gleeson has long operated at the forefront of contemporary sex-liberationist thought and the cutting edge of a Marxism against cisness. In this moving tribute to intersex liberation, she demonstrates exactly why and how the oppression of so-called hermaphrodites illuminates the whole edifice of sexed unfreedom for everyone, while their collective struggle and reason - albeit often shamefully neglected on the left - shows us the only real way out. Especially in this time when powerful cissexist actors are seeking (as it were) to make sexuation great again, Hermaphrodite Logic is exactly what antifascists need: an eminently usable ensemble of political theory and strategy grounded in historical counter-reality. -- Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family
Gleeson's book beautifully reminds us that the histories of what we know about sex have always been and will remain led by collectives of fellow travellers seeking to forge more capacious, more liveable, more erotic worlds' -- João Florêncio, co-author of CROSSINGS
A groundbreaking theory of inter-sexuality from below. Existing intersex histories have only interpreted a world of clinical concepts. HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC makes clear, however, that intersex poses an "ethical question" to that world that charges us to change it -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX
Hermaphrodite Logic celebrates the history of intersex liberation as a political movement that creates a new ethics of living with the variety of sex. Emerging in the 1990s, Juliana Gleeson traces how this movement countered the scars of medical intervention imposed on the intersex with wit and logic. The result is a moving and sardonic account that speaks of the intersex with a chorus of voices, rupturing the limits of our normative conceptions of gender and sexuality. -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester
Juliana Gleeson has long operated at the forefront of contemporary sex-liberationist thought and the cutting edge of a Marxism against cisness. In this moving tribute to intersex liberation, she demonstrates exactly why and how the oppression of so-called hermaphrodites illuminates the whole edifice of sexed unfreedom for everyone, while their collective struggle and reason - albeit often shamefully neglected on the left - shows us the only real way out. Especially in this time when powerful cissexist actors are seeking (as it were) to make sexuation great again, Hermaphrodite Logic is exactly what antifascists need: an eminently usable ensemble of political theory and strategy grounded in historical counter-reality. -- Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family
Gleeson's book beautifully reminds us that the histories of what we know about sex have always been and will remain led by collectives of fellow travellers seeking to forge more capacious, more liveable, more erotic worlds' -- João Florêncio, co-author of CROSSINGS
A groundbreaking theory of inter-sexuality from below. Existing intersex histories have only interpreted a world of clinical concepts. HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC makes clear, however, that intersex poses an "ethical question" to that world that charges us to change it -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX
Juliana Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. She is the co-editor of Transgender Marxism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781839760938 |
| ISBN 10 | 1839760931 |
| Title | Hermaphrodite Logic |
| Author | Juliana Gleeson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2025-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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