HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX

Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphroditespeople born with ambigu ous sexual anatomyand the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France an d Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and an thropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites suggested a deeper qu estion: just...[Read more]