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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe / Kathleen P. Long.

Title
  1. Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe / Kathleen P. Long.
Published by
  1. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2006.
Author
  1. Long, Kathleen P., 1957-

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Description
  1. x, 268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Women and gender in the early modern world
Uniform title
  1. Women and gender in the early modern world
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1420-1600
  2. Geschichte 1500-1650
  3. 1500-1599
  4. Social Change
  5. Philosophy
  6. Literature
  7. Disorders of Sex Development
  8. Social Change > history
  9. Philosophy > history
  10. Literature > history
  11. History, 16th Century
  12. Gender Identity
  13. Alchemy
  14. Disorders of Sex Development > history
  15. Intersexuality > Europe > History > 16th century
  16. Intersexuality > History
  17. Renaissance
  18. Gender identity > Europe > History > 16th century
  19. Alchemy > Europe
  20. Gender Identity > Europe
  21. History, 16th Century > Europe
  22. Europe
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Sexual dissonance : early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism -- The cultural and medical construction of gender : Caspar Bauchin -- Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites : culture wars in the medical profession -- Hermetic hermaphrodites -- Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement -- Lyric hermaphrodites -- The royal hermaphrodite : Henry III of France -- Hermaphrodites newly discovered : the cultural monsters of early modern France.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-253) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain