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Doubting sex : Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories /

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to create more space in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mak, Geertje
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • [Pt.] I. Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure : the politics of containment
  • Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self
  • Herculine Barbin
  • [pt.] II. Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
  • Justine Jumas : conflicting body politics
  • The dislodgement of the person
  • [pt.] III. Self. Sex assignment around 1900 : from a legal to a clinical issue
  • The turn inwards
  • Scripting the self : N.O. Body's autobiography.