Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848933026
Subjects: Intersex people; Gender identity
Description: "Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same, with social forces creating their differences. Such a view made the existence of hermaphrodites easy to accept. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this "one-sex" model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe, and with concurrent ideas in Latin America."--Publishers website