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The Hermaphrodite
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Julia Ward Howe
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time--or, in truth, of our o
The Hermaphrodite
Language: la
Pages: 356
Authors: Antonio Beccadelli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Hermaphrodite's open celebration of vice, particularly sodomy, earned it public burnings, threats of excommunication, banishment to the closed sections of l
Middlesex
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Jeffrey Eugenides
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-18 - Publisher: Vintage Canada

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Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, e
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and th
Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Kathleen P. Long
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the