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Doubting sex :

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0719086906

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9780719086908

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Doubting sex :

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[Book]

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

First Statement of Responsibility

Geertje Mak

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 284 p. :

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ill. ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-278) and index

Text of Note

[Pt.] I. Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure : the politics of containment -- Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- Herculine Barbin -- [pt.] II. Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- Justine Jumas : conflicting body politics -- The dislodgement of the person -- [pt.] III. Self. Sex assignment around 1900 : from a legal to a clinical issue -- The turn inwards -- Scripting the self : N.O. Body's autobiography

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"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, drawn upon by Geertje Mak 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

Gender identity-- History

Intersexuality-- History-- 19th century

Sex role-- History

Disorders of Sex Development-- history, Case Reports

Gender Identity, Case Reports

History, 19th Century, Case Reports

Role, Case Reports

Sexual Behavior-- history, Case Reports

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Mak, Geertje

Date of Transaction

20121015033417.0

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