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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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.