Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories

Doubting sex

Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories

By
Geertje Mak
Geertje Mak
2012 • 320 pages

Analysis of three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted.

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