Doubting sex [electronic resource] : inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / Geertje Mak.
2012
RC883 .M35 2012eb
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Doubting sex [electronic resource] : inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / Geertje Mak.
Author
Mak, Geertje.
ISBN
0719086906
9780719086908
9781847794291 (e-book)
9780719086908
9781847794291 (e-book)
Imprint
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
viii, 284 p. : ill.
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RC883 .M35 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.694
Summary
"An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book. How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists."--Publisher's website.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment
Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self
Herculine Barbin
Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics
The dislodgement of the person
Self. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue
The turn inwards
Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography
Conclusion.
Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment
Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self
Herculine Barbin
Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics
The dislodgement of the person
Self. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue
The turn inwards
Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography
Conclusion.