Intersex Treatment and the Promise of Trauma
Published in Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine, edited by Jill A. Fisher (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011), pp. 147-163.
'Iain Morland describes the relationship between medical and psychological models of gender formation and the medical management of intersex. Exploring how knowledge about intersex is produced, he disturbingly illustrates the trauma caused to intersex individuals in order to minimize the parents' and physicians' cultural anxiety about children born with ambiguous genitalia' - Jill A. Fisher, in the book's introduction (p. 17).
The Trauma of Gender
A talk and discussion in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory seminar series, Cardiff University.
Is AIS a Feminist Issue?
A presentation and discussion at the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG) meeting, UK.
Impersonal Intersex: Genital Surgery in the Public Sphere
A paper presented in the lecture series Queer Interventions: Talks between Cultural Studies and the Arts, organised by the University of Vienna, and held at The Depot.
What's Ambiguous about Gender Ambiguity?
A keynote delivered at Intersex and Performance: Embodying Ambiguity, a symposium and staged playreading at the Drill Hall, London.
Organised by Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, the event was comprised of my keynote; a rehearsed reading of The Specimen; and a panel discussion, which I chaired, featuring Claire Dowie (performer and playwright for theatre, radio and TV), Colin Ellwood (director of the Rose Bruford theatre directing programme), Catherine Harper (head of the University of Brighton School of Architecture and Design), and Laurie Slade (UKCP registered psychotherapist).
The Specimen is a new play, written by Laurie Slade, directed by Colin Ellwood, and performed by students from the European Theatre Arts programme at Rose Bruford.
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