Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories (2012)
Mak, Geertje (Author)
Manchester University Press
Physical Details: viii + 284 pp.; ill.
Language: English
This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth century clinical case histories of people whose gender was doubted shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self.
...MoreReview Bosley, Jocelyn (2014) Review of "Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 168-170).
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