Description
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .
Trade Review"Here praxiography moves into history. The result is stunning. Learn how sexed bodies and selves-with-a-sex got crafted in 19th century western Europe. Revel in the productivity of doubt. And enjoy the intellectual pleasure throughout." Annemarie Mol, Prof. Anthropology of the Body, University of Amsterdam -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I – Inscription
1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of containment
2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self
3. Herculine Barbin
II – Body
4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb
5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics
6. The dislodgement of the person
III – Self
7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical issue
8. The turn inwards
9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body’s autobiography
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
