Geertje Mak

Doubting sex

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

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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: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9780719086908
• ISBN-10: 0719086906
• Artikelnr.: 34010937

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