Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960
How did Spanish doctors conceptualize persons believed to be a mix of the male and female genders during the period of 1850–1960? Such persons disrupted gendered and sexual givens, and from a legal and medical standpoint, required examination and determination according to their true sex in order to permit marriage, inheritance, and a “normal” social life. This volume charts the changing medical discourse on the “hermaphrodite” or “intersex” persons as the interrelationship between the body, biological sex, and gender was constantly reassessed and rewritten, making this the first major study of Spanish hermaphroditism for the period and an important contribution to the growing interest in this subject worldwide.

Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Male, Female or In-Between? Toward a History of the Science of ‘Hermaphroditism’ in Spain, 1850-1960
Chapter 2: From Sex as Social Status to Biological Sex
Chapter 3: Between Diagnoses: Hermaproditism, Hypospadias and Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905
Chapter 4: Gonads, Hormones and Marañón’s Theory of Intersexuality, 1905-1930
Chapter 5: From True Sex to Sex as Simulacrum
Chapter 6: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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