Geertje Mak

Doubting sex (eBook, ePUB)

Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847794697
• Artikelnr.: 44000351

Autorenporträt

Geertje Mak is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender Studies and the History Department of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I - Inscription 1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of
containment 2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self 3.
Herculine Barbin II - Body 4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics 6. The dislodgement of the
person III - Self 7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical
issue 8. The turn inwards 9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography
Conclusion Bibliography Index