Doubting sex

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

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Social Science, Gender Studies

• Author: Geertje Mak
• ISBN: 9781847794697
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication: January 18, 2013
• Imprint: Manchester University Press
• Language: English

This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.