Doubting Sex - Inscriptions, Bodies Selves in Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite Case

Informationen zum Autor Geertje Mak is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender Studies and the History Department of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands Klappentext 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.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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionI - Inscription 1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of containment2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self3. Herculine BarbinII - Body4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics6. The dislodgement of the personIII - Self7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical issue 8. The turn inwards9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiographyConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Geertje Mak, Mak Geertje
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2012
• EAN: 9780719086908
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8690-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Gender Studies: Transsexuals & Hermaphroditism