Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe
By: Kathleen P. Long.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Hermaphroditism -- History; Hermaphroditism -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Renaissance; Gender identity -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Description: "Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.