Kathleen P Long

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the centrality of the hermaphrodite in early modern European thought. She explores the significance of this figure for the elaboration of notions of gender, national, racial, and religious identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656098
• ISBN-10: 0754656098
• Artikelnr.: 22194836

Autorenporträt

Kathleen P. Long is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Sex and gender wars
Sexual dissonance: early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism
The cultural and medical construction of gender: Caspar Bauhin
Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites: culture wars in the medical profession
Hermetic hermaphrodites
Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
Lyric hermaphrodites
The royal hermaphrodite: Henri III of France
Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of early modern France
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.