LEADER 03553oam 2200577I 450 001 9910154571203321 005 20230808200723.0 010 $a1-351-93082-6 010 $a1-138-25938-1 010 $a1-315-25336-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315253367 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965832 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758881 035 $a(OCoLC)965542959 035 $a(BIP)63377213 035 $a(BIP)13099196 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965832 100 $a20180706e20162006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe /$fKathleen P. Long 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWomen and gender in the early modern world 300 $aFirst published 2006 by Ashgate. 311 08$a0-7546-5609-8 311 08$a1-351-93083-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Sexual dissonance : early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism -- 2. The cultural and medical construction of gender : Caspar Bauhin -- 3. Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites : culture wars in the medical profession -- 4. Hermetic hermaphrodites -- 5. Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement -- 6. Lyric hermaphrodites -- 7. The royal hermaphrodite : Henri III of France -- 8. Hermaphrodites newly discovered : the cultural monsters of early modern France. 330 $aKathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts. Focusing on early modern France, with references to Switzerland and Germany, this work traces the symbolic use of the hermaphrodite across a range of disciplines and domains - medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, fictional, and political - and demonstrates how these seemingly disparate realms interacted extensively with each other in this period, also across national boundaries. This widespread use and representation of the hermaphrodite established a ground on which new ideas concerning sex and gender could be elaborated by subsequent generations, and on which a wide range of thought concerning identity, racial, religious, and national as well as gender, could be deployed. 410 0$aWomen and gender in the early modern world. 606 $aIntersexuality$xHistory 606 $aIntersexuality$zEurope$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aRenaissance 606 $aGender identity$zEurope$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aIntersexuality$xHistory. 615 0$aIntersexuality$xHistory 615 0$aRenaissance. 615 0$aGender identity$xHistory 676 $a809.335266 700 $aLong$b Kathleen P.$f1957-,$01212795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154571203321 996 $aHermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe$92800719 997 $aUNINA