Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex / / Alice Domurat Dreger.
Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late ni...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Acknowledgments
- PROLOGUE "But My Good Woman) You Are a Man!"
- CHAPTER 1 Doubtful Sex
- CHAPTER 2 Doubtful Status
- CHAPTER 3 In Search of the Veritable Vulva
- CHAPTER 4 Hermaphrodites in Love
- CHAPTER 5 The Age of Gonads
- EPILOGUE Categorical Imperatives
- Notes
- Index