Alice Domurat Dreger: Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
USA 2000, 284 pp., brochure, € 49.95Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas. Harvard University PressPunctuated 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 19th century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers ...
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