Unmaking sex : the gender outlaws of nineteenth-century France / Anne E. Linton, San Francisco State University.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781009053037
- 306.76 LIN (TB) 23
- HQ78.2.F8
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Book | Institute of English Reference | Institute of English | 306.76 LIN (TB) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | ENG16125 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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