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
