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Doubting sex : inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / Geertje Mak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mak, Geertje, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersexuality--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Intersexuality.
- Intersex people--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Intersex people.
- Gender identity--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Gender identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment
- Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self
- Herculine Barbin
- Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
- Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics
- The dislodgement of the person
- Self. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue
- The turn inwards
- Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847794697
- 1847794696
- 9781781702628
- 1781702624
- 9781847794291
- 1847794297
- OCLC:
- 818847450
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