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Jean-Pierre Guicciardi, « Hermaphrodite et le prolétaire », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1980.1268
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Jean-Pierre Guiccardi : Hermaphrodites and proletarians. This article considers several examples of 18th-century representations of the hermaphrodite, who is ignored in the exclusive distinction of sexual beings into male/female, and whose very existence challenges the sexually «normal » individual. In the works of G. de Foigny, De Pauw, Jaucourt, of surgeons or anatomists such as Duverney or Saviard, in the engravings of Gautier-Dagoty, hermaphroditism is reduced to an unimportant detail, or to a physiological aberration. They generally seek the hermaphrodite's true sex ; it is sometimes a man, more often a sick, monstrous woman, and the physical anomaly becomes a metaphor for sexual excess, perversion, crime. A specific, hermaphrodite sexuality is never even imagined, and androgyny is finally expelled from nature, from Western society, from morality.