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Early Modern Hermaphrodites : Sex and Other Stories by Ruth Gilbert is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Early Modern Hermaphrodites : Sex and Other Stories about?
From the 16th to the 18th Century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific, and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects, and medical curiosities; and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.
Who reads Early Modern Hermaphrodites : Sex and Other Stories?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ruth Gilbert
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333925379
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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