Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960

by Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García

How did Spanish doctors conceptualize persons believed to be a mix of the male and female genders during the period of 1850-1960? Such persons disrupted gendered and sexual givens, and from a legal and medical standpoint, required examination and determination according to their true sex in order to permit marriage, inheritance, and a "normal" social life. This volume charts the changing medical discourse on the "hermaphrodite" or "intersex" persons...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708322042
• ISBN13: 9780708322048
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 288 Pages