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2008
- handle: 10670/1.g10f6t
- isbn: 978-1611491012
- hal: hal-01353780
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Gabrielle Houbre, « The Bastard Offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite : Sexual ‘Anomalies’ and Medical Curiosity in France », HAL-SHS : études de genres, ID : 10670/1.g10f6t
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Biological and cultural, the body, by reason of the diversity of its conditions, has always garnered attention, raised questions, and served as fuel for the imagination. 1 As the primary expression of an individual's physical and moral integrity, it bears witness to the process of civilization as it does to mechanisms of social control. Emitting its own eloquent and meaningful language, it embodies the immediate referent to identity and, in a breathtaking mise en abîme for a medical body disrupted by the hermaphrodite body, to otherness. Before being an impossible sex for a society, which rests upon a sexual dichotomy, the hermaphrodite is a dissident body, marked by the entanglement of masculine and feminine. It is down to doctors to disentangle if not separate the two skeins and to determine which will prevail at the expense of the other.