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Do we truly need a true sex? With a persistence that borders on stubbornness, modern Western societies have answered in the affirmative. They have obstinately brought into play this question of a ‘true sex’ in an order of things where one might have imagined that all that counted was the reality of the body and the intensity of its pleasures (Foucault 1980: vii).
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Hird, M.J., Germon, J. (2001). The Intersexual Body and the Medical Regulation of Gender. In: Backett-Milburn, K., McKie, L. (eds) Constructing Gendered Bodies. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294202_10
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