Salle, Muriel
A Subversive Sexual Ambiguity
- 2010.
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In the second half of the xixth century, the question of sexual ambiguity worries doctors who, strangely enough, demonstrate a strong interest in the matter, despite the scarcity of such occurrences. In the double theoretical framework of positivism and evolutionism, they develop a renewed reflection on the subject, which betrays their anxieties at the same time as its provides their definition of the masculine and of the feminine.