Sex, identity and hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 / by Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García.

Sex, identity and hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 / by Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García.

London ; Brookfield, Vermont : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

©2013

ix, 214 pages ; 24 cm

The body, gender and culture ; Number 16

"Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same, with social forces creating their differences. Such a view made the existence of hermaphrodites easy to accept. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this "one-sex" model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe, and with concurrent ideas in Latin America."--Publishers website

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.

Introduction: Sex, gender and historicity
Marvels, monsters and prodigies: hermaphrodites as natural phenomena in Spain, 1500-1700
Sexual transgression and hermaphroditism: the 'New World' and imperial subjectivity
The expulsion of the marvellous: the decline of the 'One-sex' model, 1750-1830
Hermaphroditism in Portugal.

Body, gender and culture ; no. 16.

Great Britain -- England.

HQ1075.5.I18 C54 2013