: Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vazquez Garcia
: Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800
: Pickering& Chatto Publishers
: 9781848933033
: 1
: CHF 101.10
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: Geschichte
: English
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.