Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies, advancing the history of sexuality and medicine through a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach. Newly-uncovered accounts reveal the complex history underpinning trans and intersex activism today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Gender revolution before intersex or transgender; Part I. A Cultural History of 'Hermaphrodism' from the Archives: 1. Prescribed fictions: stories of 'hermaphrodism' vs. true sex; 2. Outlaws from birth: 'doubtful sex' and the civil code; Part II. Contextualizing High and Low Literary Narratives: 3. Is she or isn't he? Plotting ambiguous gender; 4. Inheriting 'hermaphrodism': how degeneration theory changed literature and medicine; Epilogue: The nineteenth-century roots of contemporary resistance to true sex.
