Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

by Alice Domurat Dreger

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This text explores encounters between hermaphrodites - people born with ambigious sexual anatomy - and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late 19th century, a moment of great tension for question of sex roles. While the feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674089278

ISBN13:9780674089273

Release Date:May 1998

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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