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Abstract
This essay focuses on the rhetoric of protection that emerges around infants who face the prospect of normalizing surgeries. Frequently, decisions to proceed with normalizing surgeries are made by doctors and parents with "protection" of the infant as a motivating force. "Protection," in such contexts, typically refers to protection of the infant from the inhospitable world that lies in wait for an individual whose body does not conform to social, morphological, and biological norms. While this concern may be valid and important, this essay argues that there are alternative narratives or notions of protection that must also be acknowledged and validated.
Recommended Citation
Falvey, Amy. 2012. "The Problem of Protection: Rethinking Rhetoric of Normalizing Surgeries." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 2 (Spring): 40-53. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol2/iss2/9
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