
Early Modern Hermaphrodites
Sex and Other Stories
R. Gilbert(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 214 pages
978-1-349-42520-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites 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.
Reviews / Votes
'To future generations this book will...illustrate the transformation of sexual curiosity into an academic discipline.' - Contemporary Review
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Edition
1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
XII, 214 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-42520-4 (9781349425204)
DOI
10.1057/9780230510227
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Book
04/2002
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
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.
Content
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