TY - JOUR
T1 - The Waiting Room
T2 - Ontological Homelessness, Sexual Synecdoche, and Queer Becoming
AU - Malatino, Hilary
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - An autobiographical reflection on the experience of being diagnosed as intersex, this essay considers the waiting room an apt metaphor for lives shaped by medical understandings of queer corporealities. Drawing upon the work of Gayle Salamon, Malatino develops the concept of sexual synecdoche as a useful analytic tool for considering the operations of medical pathologization in the realm of non-normative gender. She concludes with a discussion of queer becoming as an alternative ontology of gendered being that offers a resistant, coalitional way beyond contemporary, problematic institutionalized understandings of intersex subjectivities.
AB - An autobiographical reflection on the experience of being diagnosed as intersex, this essay considers the waiting room an apt metaphor for lives shaped by medical understandings of queer corporealities. Drawing upon the work of Gayle Salamon, Malatino develops the concept of sexual synecdoche as a useful analytic tool for considering the operations of medical pathologization in the realm of non-normative gender. She concludes with a discussion of queer becoming as an alternative ontology of gendered being that offers a resistant, coalitional way beyond contemporary, problematic institutionalized understandings of intersex subjectivities.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10912-013-9225-9
DO - 10.1007/s10912-013-9225-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 23483366
AN - SCOPUS:84878115531
SN - 1041-3545
VL - 34
SP - 241
EP - 244
JO - Journal of Medical Humanities
JF - Journal of Medical Humanities
IS - 2
ER -