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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mak, Geertje
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex role.
Intersexuality.
Gender identity.
HISTORY > General.
History, 19th Century.
Sexual Behavior > history.
Role.
Gender Identity.
Disorders of Sex Development > history.
Sex role > History.
Gender identity > History.
Intersexuality > History > 19th century.
History.
Case Reports.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • [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.

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