Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800

ISBN-13: 9781138664593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Francisco Vazquez Garcia;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Sex, Gender And Historicity; Chapter 1 Marvels, Monsters and Prodigies: Hermaphrodites as Natural Phenomena in Spain, 1500–1700; Chapter 2 Sexual Transgression and Hermaphroditism: The ‘New World’ and Imperial Subjectivity; Chapter 3 The Expulsion of the Marvellous: The Decline of the ‘One-Sex’ Model, 1750–1830; Chapter 4 Hermaphroditism in Portugal; conclusion Conclusion;

O autorze

Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García