Freaks of Nature: 19th Century Hermaphrodites and the Medicalization of Gender Transgression
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Freaks of Nature
19th Century Hermaphrodites and the Medicalization of Gender Transgression
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Mythological Origins Hermaphrodito
Hermaphrodito and Salmacis
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Historiography Alice Dreger Michel Foucault
Less reliable? Herculine Barbin Professional
Periodicals British Medical
Journal, e.g.
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Darwin and Gender
Sexual Selection Functionalism
Hermaphroditism Normal for
Flowers Monstrous for
humans Consanguinity
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You're a Man!!! Authority Causation
clueless women Maternal trauma
“Treatment”? Surgery “because I said so”
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Monstrosity
“I am sceptical as to the existence of such of such freaks of Nature in the human species.”
Dr. William Tibbles
British Medical Journal, 1888.
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Clinical Privacy
Typical Photograph Face hidden Disembodied
hands... Subject to Curiosity
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Modern Transgressions