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How Intersex has Been Treated
CITATION
What’s wrong with the way intersex has traditionally been treated?.
Intersex Society of North America, Print.
Intersex Traditionally Treated
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Various Authors
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explain to readers how people who are intersex used to be treated in the medical realm-and the issues behind being treated that way.
Context: The writers are very informed with the information they are discussing and were prompted to write thsi article because we are more aware of how people who are intersex are being treated today, however many people don’t know the history or the progress that has been made behind intersex.
Audience: There is a wide range of audience for this article, people who are educated and have access to the internet can easily find their way to this site, especially if they are interested in anything surrounding the intersex community.
Publication: The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
Genre: Educational
Impossible Hermaphrodites-Russell.AnnotatedGuide
CITATION
Reis , Elizabeth. “Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America,
1620-1960.” Journal of American History. 32. Print.
Category: Annotated Guide |
I am Intersex-Personal Story
CITATION
Beck, Max. “My Life as an Intersex.” NOVA 30 October 2001, Print.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Max Beck died of Cancer in 2008 and was an intersex activist. He was born intersex, and transferred from woman to man later in life. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to inform and inspire emotion from the readers. The fact that the article is a personal story from the writer really draws compassion from the readers. And because of this it is something one should pay attention to, because this is only one man’s experience. It is not to say that all people who are intersex have the same lifestyle growing up or today that Max did.
Context: This article appeared in NOVA which is a science branch of PBS. It was found in the Body and Brain section of the website, and although it is a few years old-much of the same issues and struggles that Max went through occur to people today.
Lady GaGa-Born This Way
CITATION
“Born This Way.” Konvict Muzik. Web. 18 Jul 2011.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Lady GaGa, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Anglina Germanotta. Is an incredibly popular music artist who is known all over the world. She became extremely well known in 2008 after her first album release of Fame. And she has only continued to grow in popularity.
Purpose: The purpose of this video is to entertain and to draw out emotion. All music videos are made to entertain viewers, but there is so much meaning behind this video and what is being said that it’s twofold.
Context: The beginning of this video is representative of birth. It is designed to lead into what the song is going to be about-that it is okay to be different. Lady GaGa is a great representation of being different because she openly embraces it and as this song and video show she would like others to as well. This matters in this content because of the liberating feeling it may give to those who do think of themselves as different and struggle to embrace it, or even hate it. Intersex people may or may not fall into that category.
Intersex Persons Want Marriage
CITATION
James, Susan Donaldson. “Intersex Babies: Boy or Girl and Who
Decides?.” ABC News 17 March 2011, Print.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Author: Susan Donaldson James is a writer/reporter for ABCNews. ABCNews has been around since the mid 1900′s and is a well known program today. Susan received her masters at Columbia University in Journalism.
Purpose: The purpose of this artifact is to inform and draw emotion from readers. Because of that readers react differently to the type of information learned in this article. The article also brings into light the moralistic question of what parents should or should not be allowed to do when they have a child that is intersex. The first video that is played discussing intersex persons wanting marriage also plays a large role in the struggle for intersex.
Context: This article was written so that some of the struggles intersex people experience are brought into light. Parents make decisions for their children everyday, but is there a point in which they should not be allowed to make some decisions? Also, this article serves to show that intersex is not that uncommon and there are many famous persons that are well known who are, in fact, intersex.
The video brings awareness to the struggles some people are faced with.
Category: News & Mass Media Artifacts |
Tags: health, infants, intersex, moral issues, news, surgery
Alice Dreger-Intersex Activist Lecture
Video of Intersex Activist Alice Dreger
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Alice Dreger is an activist who currenty works at Northwestern University as a Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics. She earned her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. Alice also served as the leader of Intersex Society of North America.
Purpose: The purpose of this video is to help understand the complexities behind intersex, and how we as society draw a line on human nature. And that there are not categories that are stable for us to put people into.
Category: Educational Artifact |
Tags: activist, atypical, common, intersex, intersex athletes, oii, organisation intersex international
Gender X-Article from Stanford Medicine
Gender X
Klein, Dianne. “Gender X.” Stanford Office of Communication and Public Affairs. Spring 2011: Print
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Dianne Klein who is currently the media specialist at the University of California. She has been a freelance writer and also a writer for the Los Angeles Times.
Purpose: There are various segments in this article that serve different purposes. But overall there are a couple stories involving family’s who experience life with a child who has an XY chromosome, or a case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. There’s also some scientific background regarding intersex, and how some medical professionals today are working with intersex activists and therapists in the medical scene to help families.
Context: The reason the author wrote this article is to show what types of decisions some parents are asked to make on occasion. Also, to have the input of some medical persons put out there to give the opinion that perhaps if families like the Thompson’s had a little more patience in situations where surgery was an option there could be better results for infants in the future.
Article on Intersex Activist’s Research
DIGITAL VERSION AND CITATION
Clegg, Cassandra. “Intersex Activist Shares Research.” The Roosevelt University Torch. 3 Apr. 2011. Web.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Rhetorical Situation
Author: Cassandra Clegg, a staff reporter for The Torch-Roosevelt University’s school paper- is known for her intersex activtivist articles. She won an honorable mention in the Features Category in 2009.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to inform and bring awareness to the issue that is intersex. Clegg was informing the student community of the event that took place while also relaying information from the speaker that was very medically and scientifically relevant when discussing and learning about what being intersex medically means.
Context: As mentioned above the newspaper article was written in order to bring to light the difficulties surrounding intersex individuals, their experiences. And also to give information about what being intersex scientifically means.
Audience: The intended audience was college undergraduate and graduate students who are still on campus. Also, some alumni’s that receive the student newspaper will have also read the article. The way that the article is interpreted varies some because the author can assume that the reader has an educational background so the way it was written can be a bit more complex than it otherwise might have been.
Wikipedia entry for “Intersex”
DIGITAL VERSION
