ISBN:
9781848933026
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p)
Series Statement:
""The Body, Gender and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800
DDC:
306.76850946
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this 'one-sex' model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sex, Gender and Historicity; 1 Marvels, Monsters and Prodigies: Hermaphrodites as Natural Phenomena in Spain, 1500-1700; 2 Sexual Transgression and Hermaphroditism: The 'New World' and Imperial Subjectivity; 3 The Expulsion of the Marvellous: The Decline of the 'One-Sex' Model, 1750-1830; 4 Hermaphroditism in Portugal; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
