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100 1 0 _aMak, Geertje
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245 0 0 _aChanges in Sex Logics. Hermaphroditism in Nineteenth Century Medical and Legal Cases
260 _c2017.
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520 _aBy analyzing the ways of deciding to which category of sex a person should belong in nineteenth-century cases of hermaphroditism in Europe, the author argues that sex as a category has profoundly changed. Presenting two examples of the three hundred cases analyzed, she shows how doubting one’s sex at the beginning of the century was treated as a problem between a person and his or her community (in which doctors sometimes acted as arbiters), whereas by the end of the century it had become a problem between the self of the person and his or her body, a problem to be solved within a medical-psychiatric individualized framework.
690 _apraxeography
690 _ahistory
690 _agender
690 _aSex
690 _ahermaphroditism
690 _ahistory of the body
786 0 _nCliniques méditerranéennes | o  95 | 1 | 2017-03-16 | p. 21-34 | 0762-7491
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2017-1-page-21?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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