Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories
Ruth Gilbert
From the 16th to the 18th 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.
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Year:
2002
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
english
Pages:
232
ISBN 10:
0230510221
ISBN 13:
9780333925379
File:
PDF, 1.25 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002
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