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A slideshow created to accompany a paper written about the treatment of "hermaphrodites" by the 19th Century medical and scientific communities. My argument is that gender ambiguity often turned patients into subjects, to be analyzed rather than treated.The paper will be forthcoming.
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Freaks of Nature
19th Century Hermaphrodites and the Medicalization of Gender Transgression
Mythological Origins Hermaphrodito
Hermaphrodito and Salmacis
Historiography Alice Dreger Michel Foucault
Less reliable? Herculine Barbin Professional
Periodicals British Medical
Journal, e.g.
Darwin and Gender
Sexual Selection Functionalism
Hermaphroditism Normal for
Flowers Monstrous for
humans Consanguinity
You're a Man!!! Authority Causation
clueless women Maternal trauma
“Treatment”? Surgery “because I said so”
Monstrosity
“I am sceptical as to the existence of such of such freaks of Nature in the human species.”
Dr. William Tibbles
British Medical Journal, 1888.
Clinical Privacy
Typical Photograph Face hidden Disembodied
hands... Subject to Curiosity
Modern Transgressions
