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Unmaking sex : the gender outlaws of nineteenth-century France / Anne E. Linton (San Francisco State University)

Linton, Anne E., 1981- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2022

x, 254 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Unmaking sex / Linton, Anne E. (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-316-51182-4 (hardback)

978-1-009-05303-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021029042

OCoLC: 1315532223     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009053037

HQ78.2.F8

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Basisklassifikation: 18.23 (Französische Literatur) ; 71.31 (Geschlechter und ihr Verhalten) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen)

*Französisch ; Literatur ; Intersexualität ; Geschichte 1800-1900     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Intersex people -- France -- History -- 19th century ; Intersexuality -- France -- History -- 19th century ; Sex determination -- France -- History -- 19th century

Introduction: gender revolution before intersex or transgender -- Part one. A cultural history of "hermaphrodism" from the archives -- Prescribed fictions: stories of "hermaphrodism" vs. true sex -- Outlaws from birth: "doubtful sex" and the civil code -- Part two. Contextualizing high and low literary narratives -- Is she or isn't he? Plotting ambiguous gender -- Inheriting "hermaphrodism": how degeneration theory changed literature and medicine -- Epilogue: the nineteenth-century roots of contemporary resistance to true sex.