Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960 /
This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press
2009.
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| Serie: | Iberian and Latin American studies.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qhdks |
Sommario:
- Introduction : male, female or in-between? Towards a history of the science of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain, 1850-1960
- From sex as social status to biological sex
- Between diagnoses : hermaphroditism, hypospadias and pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905
- Gonads, hormones and Marañón's theory of intersexuality, 1905-1930
- From true sex to sex as simulacrum.