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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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    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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    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

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