Doubting sex inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories /

"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 quie...

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Päätekijä: Mak, Geertje
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.