Vicente analyses the philosophical, medical and legal debates about sexual difference in eighteenth-century Spain to demonstrate how formal definitions of man and woman often clashed with the reality of sex and gender, utilising case studies to trace the lives of particular individuals with ambiguous sexual and gender traits.
Vicente analyses the philosophical, medical and legal debates about sexual difference in eighteenth-century Spain to demonstrate how formal definitions of man and woman often clashed with the reality of sex and gender, utilising case studies to trace the lives of particular individuals with ambiguous sexual and gender traits.
Marta V. Vicente is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She has published widely on the history of gender and sexuality and is author of Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic (2006).
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Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1. The anatomy of sex 2. Medical theory versus practice: the case of Sebastián/María Leirado 3. Nature, nurture and early modern sexuality 4. The body of law: legislating sex in eighteenth-century Spain 5. Sex and gender: reconsidering the legacy of the enlightenment Endnotes Bibliograph.
Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1. The anatomy of sex 2. Medical theory versus practice: the case of Sebastián/María Leirado 3. Nature, nurture and early modern sexuality 4. The body of law: legislating sex in eighteenth-century Spain 5. Sex and gender: reconsidering the legacy of the enlightenment Endnotes Bibliograph.
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