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Doubting sex
Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
30,99 € |
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Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 18.01.2013 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781847794697 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 296 |
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<p>An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to ‘create more space’ in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book.<br><br>How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists.</p>
This groundbreaking 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.
<p>Introduction<br>I – Inscription <br>1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of containment<br>2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self<br>3. Herculine Barbin<br>II – Body<br>4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb<br>5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics<br>6. The dislodgement of the person<br>III – Self<br>7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical issue <br>8. The turn inwards<br>9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body’s autobiography<br>Conclusion<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
Geertje Mak is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender Studies and the History Department of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
<p>An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to ‘create more space’ in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book.<br><br>How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists.</p>