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Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960 /

This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cleminson, Richard (Autor), Vázquez García, Francisco, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Colección:Iberian and Latin American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : male, female or in-between? Towards a history of the science of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain, 1850-1960
  • From sex as social status to biological sex
  • Between diagnoses : hermaphroditism, hypospadias and pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905
  • Gonads, hormones and Marañón's theory of intersexuality, 1905-1930
  • From true sex to sex as simulacrum.