Early Modern Hermaphrodites

Sex and Other Stories

AvR. Gilbert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

From the 16th century to the 18th century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythol mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. This title looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-04-19
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Upplaga:2002
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333925379

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

RUTH GILBERT is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. She is co-editor with Erica Fudge and Susan Wiseman of At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period.

Recensioner i media

'To future generations this book will...illustrate the transformation of sexual curiosity into an academic discipline.' - Contemporary Review

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Sex and Other Stories On Gods and Monsters: Defining the Early Modern Hermaphrodite Telling the Truth of Sex: The Hermaphrodite in Biology and Law Both and Neither: Rewriting Ovid's Hermaphrodite Mingle-Mangle: Masculine Women and Feminine Men Every Heteroclite Part: The Monstrous Hermaphrodite and the English Revolution Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and the Hermaphrodite Epilogue: Re/covering the Early Modern Hermaphrodite Endnotes Bibliography Index