Band 4 von Foucaults Histoire posthum erschienen
Der vierte, bislang im Nachlass schlummernde Band von Foucault Histoire de la sexualité ist soeben erschienen:...
View ArticleRenée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part I
Renée Soulodre-La France has kindly agreed to have her article ‚What is in a body?‘ republished via this blog. It originally appeared online in La Habana Elegante – Revista de literatura y cultura...
View Article„Intersexualität als historisches Phänomen“– Themenschwerpunkt im aktuellen...
Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Sexuologie ist erschienen, mit einem Themenschwerpunkt „Intersexualität als historisches Phänomen„: http://www.sexuologie-info.de/htm/gesamtinhalt.htm Die Aufsätze...
View ArticleRenée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part II
Cases like that of Martina Parra provide us an opportunity to explore layers of attitudes and thoughts, mentalitées and practices, as different subaltern and dominant groups became involved. By putting...
View ArticleRenée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part III
Ironically, the very visibility of the body could sometimes lead to unusual challenges by colonial authorities. In Nueva Granada in the 1670s the Jesuit Diego Ximenez was caught in the snares of the...
View ArticleRenée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part IV
There were some insidious ideas and attitudes that arose almost automatically in discussions of hermaphrodites, and these seem to transcend time and space. Some of these same issues arose from...
View ArticleRenée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part V
The temporal context for this case is rendered more intelligible given the influence of the enlightenment and the twin objectives of colonial authorities to reform society by civilizing the population...
View ArticleSex reassignment surgery in a turkish medieval manuscript
Medieval images of intersex persons (or hermaphrodites, as they were known) are rare. This has to do with a very simple reason, as intersex persons were living most of the time a perfectly conventional...
View ArticleThe Last Days of Taurus – When Hermaphrodites Are Born…
Many contributions to this blog convincingly show that the Middle Ages (or, more generally, the premodern period) were quite familiar with the figure of the «hermaphrodite» as well as with a range of...
View ArticleNeuausgabe von “Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren”
Die 1907 anonym erschienene Autobiographie “Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren” (siehe hier im Blog) ist neu herausgegeben worden. Grundlage ist die vergriffene Ausgabe von Hermann Simon, jetzt erweitert...
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