Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960
This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Iberian and Latin American studies
Iberian and Latin American studies. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798324106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: male, Female or in-between?towards a History of the science of 'Hermaphroditism' inspain, 1850-1960; From sex as social status to biological sex; Between diagnoses: Hermaphroditism, Hypospadiasand Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905; Gonads, Hormones and marañón's theory ofintersexuality, 1905-1930; From true sex to sex as simulacrum; Conclusions; Bibliograph; Index
