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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Cen
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- ISBN-13
- 9780394738628
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- ISBN
- 9780394738628
- Publication Year
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
- Item Height
- 202mm
- Publisher
- Random House USA INC International Concepts
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 133mm
- Item Weight
- 193g
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris. Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative, articulate, eerily prescient as she imagines her corpse under the probing instruments of scientists, Herculine brings a disturbing perspective to our own notions of sexuality. Michel Foucault, who discovered these memoirs in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene, presents them with the graphic medical descriptions of Herculine's body before and after her death. In a striking contrast, a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality.
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Random House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780394738628
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Book Title
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1980
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Height
202mm
Item Width
133mm
Item Weight
193g
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