With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris. Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative,...
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of he...
Der vorliegende Band enthlt Foucaults Einleitung zur amerikanischen Ausgabe, Herculine Barbins Erinnerungen, Oskar Panizzas literarische Bearbeitung dieses Stoffs, ein von Foucault erstelltes Dossier mit Gutachten und Dokumenten zum historischen Fall und ein Nachwort der Herausgeber.
Der vorliegende Band enthlt Foucaults Einleitung zur amerikanischen Ausgabe, Herculine Barbins Erinnerungen, Oskar Panizzas literarische Bearbeitung d...
