Doubting sex

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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I - Inscription 1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of containment 2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self 3. Herculine Barbin II - Body 4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb 5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics 6. The dislodgement of the person III - Self 7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical issue 8. The turn inwards 9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography Conclusion Bibliography Index