Unmaking sex the gender outlaws of nineteenth-century France
Introduction: gender revolution before intersex or transgender -- Part one. A cultural history of "hermaphrodism" from the archives -- Prescribed fictions: stories of "hermaphrodism" vs. true sex -- Outlaws from birth: "doubtful sex" and the civil code -- Part two. Cont...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, Port Melbourne
Cambridge University Press
2022
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Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: gender revolution before intersex or transgender -- Part one. A cultural history of "hermaphrodism" from the archives -- Prescribed fictions: stories of "hermaphrodism" vs. true sex -- Outlaws from birth: "doubtful sex" and the civil code -- Part two. Contextualizing high and low literary narratives -- Is she or isn't he? Plotting ambiguous gender -- Inheriting "hermaphrodism": how degeneration theory changed literature and medicine -- Epilogue: the nineteenth-century roots of contemporary resistance to true sex. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | x, 254 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781316511824 978-1-316-51182-4 |