« Garçons sous-virilisés » et « filles élevées en garçons »

• Published in: Socio
• Main Author: Kraus, Cynthia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2017
• Subjects: sexe; genre; intersexe; chirurgie génitale; masculinité; assignation de sexe; Nord; Sud; intersexué; transgenre; Inuit; anthropologie; troisième sexe social; Françoise Héritier; Bernard Saladin d’Anglure; sex; gender; intersex; genital surgery; North; South; sex assignment; masculinity; trans; anthropology; third social sex; anthro-se; hist; Françoise; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/socio.2931; http://journals.openedition.org/socio/2931

This article draws on fieldwork I conducted on the case management of variations of sex development in surgical missions in West Africa. My analysis will focus on two kinds of situations encountered at the missions: “undervirilized boys” who present with a rather common variation of sex development...