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

• Autore: Cleminson Richard
• Pubblicazione: Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.6940094609034
• Soggetto topico: Intersexuality
• Altri autori: Vázquez GarcíaFrancisco
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960
• ISBN: 1-299-20048-6; 0-7083-2279-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828497703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iberian and Latin American studies.