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Hardcover Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960 Book

ISBN: 0708322042

ISBN13: 9780708322048

Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960

(Part of the Iberian and Latin American Studies Series)

How did Spanish doctors conceptualize persons believed to be a mix of the male and female genders during the period of 1850-1960? Such persons disrupted gendered and sexual givens, and from a legal and medical standpoint, required examination and determination according to their true sex in order to permit marriage, inheritance, and a "normal" social life. This volume charts the changing medical discourse on the "hermaphrodite" or "intersex" persons...

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