Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

by Alice Domurat Dreger

Book Overview

Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674001893
• ISBN13: 9780674001893
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"