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Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960 / Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez Garcia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleminson, Richard.
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American studies.
- Iberian and Latin American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersexuality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging medical, legal and social influences.
- Contents:
- Series editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: male, Female or in-between?towards a History of the science of 'Hermaphroditism' inspain, 1850-1960; From sex as social status to biological sex; Between diagnoses: Hermaphroditism, Hypospadiasand Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905; Gonads, Hormones and marañón's theory ofintersexuality, 1905-1930; From true sex to sex as simulacrum; Conclusions; Bibliograph; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299200487
- 1299200486
- 9780708322796
- 0708322794
- OCLC:
- 762116258
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