Hermaphroditism, medical science and sexual identity in Spain, 1850-1960
By: Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García
Contributors: Vázquez García, Francisco, 1961-
Series: Iberian and Latin American studies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780708322048
Subjects: Intersexuality; Gender Identity; History, 19th Century; Intersex people; Hermaphroditism; Social conditions; History, 20th Century; Gender identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : male, female or in-between? Towards a history of the science of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain, 1850-1960; title: From sex as social status to biological sex; title: Between diagnoses : hermaphroditism, hypospadias and pseudo-hermaphroditism, 1870-1905; title: Gonads, hormones and Marañón's theory of intersexuality, 1905-1930; title: From true sex to sex as simulacrum.