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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792434803321

Autore

Cleminson Richard

Titolo

Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960 [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2009

ISBN

1-299-20048-6

0-7083-2279-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Iberian and Latin American studies

Altri autori (Persone)

Vázquez GarcíaFrancisco

Disciplina

616.6940094609034

Soggetti

Intersexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: male, Female or in-between?towards a History of the science of 'Hermaphroditism' inspain, 1850-1960; From sex as social status to biological sex; Between diagnoses: Hermaphroditism, Hypospadiasand Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905; Gonads, Hormones and marañón's theory ofintersexuality, 1905-1930; From true sex to sex as simulacrum; Conclusions; Bibliograph; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging medical, legal and social influences.