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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex Author:Alice Domurat Dreger Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them in late 19th-century France and England. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' ... more »chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did.« less