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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe / Kathleen P. Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Kathleen P., 1957-
- Series:
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersexuality--History.
- Intersexuality.
- Intersexuality--Europe--History--16th century.
- Renaissance.
- Gender identity--Europe--History--16th century.
- Gender identity.
- History.
- Europe.
- Disorders of Sex Development--history.
- Alchemy.
- Gender Identity.
- History, 16th Century.
- Literature--history.
- Philosophy--history.
- Social Change--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disorders of Sex Development--history.
- Alchemy.
- Gender Identity.
- History, 16th Century.
- Literature--history.
- Philosophy--history.
- Social Change--history.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2006.
- Summary:
- "Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Sexual dissonance : early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism
- The cultural and medical construction of gender : Caspar Bauchin
- Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites : culture wars in the medical profession
- Hermetic hermaphrodites
- Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
- Lyric hermaphrodites
- The royal hermaphrodite : Henry III of France
- Hermaphrodites newly discovered : the cultural monsters of early modern France.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754656098
- 9780754656098
- OCLC:
- 62282098
- Publisher Number:
- 99813992743
- Online:
- http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2094160&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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