Anne E. Linton (San Francisco State University)

Unmaking Sex

The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies, advancing the history of sexuality and medicine through a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach. Newly-uncovered accounts reveal the complex history underpinning trans and intersex activism today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511824
• ISBN-10: 1316511820
• Artikelnr.: 62602163

Autorenporträt

Anne E. Linton is Associate Professor of French at San Francisco State University. Her research interests and publications span a wide range of interdisciplinary topics in nineteenth-century cultural studies, including gender studies, science, and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender revolution before intersex or transgender; Part I. A
Cultural History of 'Hermaphrodism' from the Archives: 1. Prescribed
fictions: stories of 'hermaphrodism' vs. true sex; 2. Outlaws from birth:
'doubtful sex' and the civil code; Part II. Contextualizing High and Low
Literary Narratives: 3. Is she or isn't he? Plotting ambiguous gender; 4.
Inheriting 'hermaphrodism': how degeneration theory changed literature and
medicine; Epilogue: The nineteenth-century roots of contemporary resistance
to true sex.