This is because innate difference forms an important part of the informant’s experience with masculinity. The examination of masculinity in this person’s case cannot be separated from questions of the innate. Through narrative and talk in interaction the informant strategically mobilises normative discourses of masculinity, appropriating these dominant discourses and constructing a subject position as intersex while drawing upon binary terminology (both biological and social) in order to construct a non-binary body and self. Its application reveals the limitations of the social category ‘man’ as a location for masculinity. The approach taken to the analysis of discourse is poststructuralist in orientation, drawing on data from media interviews and group discussion recordings. This paper applies a queer lens to one person’s account of an intersex body and self in order to examine the ‘intersections’ of masculinity with constructions of biologically grounded innateness.
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