Cary Gabriel Costello
Biographic Data
| ID | 255691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cary Gabriel Costello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cary Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Costello |
| SIGNATURE | COSTELLO C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9541-5122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The joy of (inter)sex
This article examines the question of what produces happiness for intersex people, with a particular focus on sexuality. During the mid-20th century, bodies of intermediate sex were medicalized as disordered and in need of treatment via surgery, hormones and other interventions in order to produce conformity with binary sex/gender expectations. However, this ‘cure’, involving medically enforced secrecy and unconsented-to infant sex reassignment s…
Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology
Perceived as natural and universal, the framing of sex and gender as binaries is in fact a cultural ideology. The empirical reality is that sex is a spectrum, manifesting in a wide array of sex variance, some of it formally categorized as intersex by scientists and doctors, and some not. This article gives an overview of how different societies have organized sex and gender into three, four, or more categories, and of the imposition of binary sex…
Saving Face
Making Virtual Worlds
Making Virtual Worlds
Saving Face
Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology
Perceived as natural and universal, the framing of sex and gender as binaries is in fact a cultural ideology. The empirical reality is that sex is a spectrum, manifesting in a wide array of sex variance, some of it formally categorized as intersex by scientists and doctors, and some not. This article gives an overview of how different societies have organized sex and gender into three, four, or more categories, and of the imposition of binary sex…
The joy of (inter)sex
This article examines the question of what produces happiness for intersex people, with a particular focus on sexuality. During the mid-20th century, bodies of intermediate sex were medicalized as disordered and in need of treatment via surgery, hormones and other interventions in order to produce conformity with binary sex/gender expectations. However, this ‘cure’, involving medically enforced secrecy and unconsented-to infant sex reassignment s…
Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Augmented Reality Applications (1 work) · Closet (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Disfigurement (1 work)