Gender Trouble
2015
Computer Files, Websites
In this lyrical and moving documentary, four intersex women tell their stories with astonishing bravery and candour. Set against beautiful yet unsettling backgrounds of organically transforming family photographs, orchids and topiary gardens, Melissa, Mary, Barbara and Sara speak openly about hermaphrodism and the secrecy surrounding their conditions and lives. More than one in every 2000 people are born with some sort of intersex condition but you would never know it. Most intersex people have lived in secrecy and silence - the casualties of a medical profession that believed it best to surgically eradicate difference and withhold the truth from their patients.
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Author:
Mortimer, Roz, filmmakerKanopy (Firm)
Work:
Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Notes:
Title from title frames.In Process Record.Originally produced by Seventh Art Releasing in 2012.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Undetermined
Index terms:
DocumentariesHuman RightsLGBTNorth American Studies
BRN:
412024
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/121520/external-image - Cover Image