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From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.
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'To future generations this book will...illustrate the transformation of sexual curiosity into an academic discipline.' - Contemporary Review
About the author
RUTH GILBERT is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. She is co-editor with Erica Fudge and Susan Wiseman of At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Hermaphrodites
Book Subtitle: Sex and Other Stories
Authors: Ruth Gilbert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510227
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-92537-9Published: 19 April 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42520-4Published: 01 January 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51022-7Published: 19 April 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 214