Iain Morland | Research + Writing

Queering the Surgical Public Sphere

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:16:24 +0000

A paper and discussion in the Gender, Culture and Society seminar series at the University of Limerick, convened by Women’s Studies in the Department of Sociology.

Why Five Sexes Are Not Enough

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:41:22 +0000

Published in The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, edited by Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 33-48.

Click here to read about the book on the publisher's website.

Between Critique and Reform: Ways of Reading the Intersex Controversy

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:15:36 +0000

Published in Critical Intersex, edited by Morgan Holmes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 191-213.

'Morland [...] rejects the liberal humanist claims regarding autonomy and bodily integrity that have characterized much current activist scholarship on intersex' - Morgan Holmes, in the book's introduction (p. 10).

Impersonal Intersex: Genital Surgery in the Public Sphere

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:01:00 +0000

A paper given in the Assuming Gender seminar series at Cardiff University, presenting in a longer form the research I discussed on a panel at the Society for Medical Anthroplogy conference in September 2009.

Assuming Gender is a postgraduate project based in the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, comprising an academic journal, seminar series, and annual lecture.

Impersonal Intersex: Genital Surgery in the Public Sphere

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:39:57 +0000

A paper presented on the panel The Intersections of Intersex at the Society for Medical Anthropology conference Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, held at Yale University.

The panel was organised by Eizabeth Reis and chaired by Alice Dreger, and also featured presentations by Ellen Feder, Morgan Holmes, and Thea Hillman.

What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:27:07 +0000

Published in GLQ 15:2 (2009), pp. 285-312, a special issue titled Intersex and After.

Click here for more information on the special issue, or here to read the article abstract.

Intersex and After

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:07:33 +0000

A special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15:2 (2009).

From the publisher's description: 'In this special issue of GLQ, experts from a variety of disciplines discuss the future of treatment for people with intersex conditions—those born with ambiguous genitalia—and consider what intersexuality means for theories of gender. By examining the ethics of medical treatment and the repercussions of intersex surgery, “Intersex and After” demonstrates how biology, activism, law, morality, and ethics have a shared interest in the relationship between intersexuality and the meaning of sex, gender, and sexuality.'

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Contents:

Introduction: Lessons from the Octopus

Iain Morland

Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement: Feminist Theory in Action

Alice D. Dreger and April M. Herndon

Intersex Practice, Theory and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion

Sarah M. Creighton, Julie A. Greenberg, Katrina Roen and Del LaGrace Volcano

The Herm Portfolio

Del LaGrace Volcano

Quantum Sex: Intersex and the Molecular Deconstruction of Sex

Vernon A. Rosario

What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?

Iain Morland

The Somatechnics of Intersexuality: Review Essay

Nikki Sullivan

Discomfort

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:01:00 +0000

A discussion seminar in Cardiff University's Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory about the politics of bodily and affective discomfort, with Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago).

Intersex: Care and Ethics

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:01:00 +0000

A seminar on changing conceptions of ethical patient care for intersex, presented to staff and students in the Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies.

Is a Queer Theory of Intersex Possible?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:58:18 +0000

A paper and discussion presented in the Cardiff University Gender and Sexualities Research Group seminar series, based around my forthcoming work on intersex and queer theory for GLQ.