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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754656098

  • ISBN10:

    0754656098

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-06-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts.Focusing on early-modern France, with references to Switzerland and Germany, this work traces the symbolic use of the hermaphrodite across a range of disciplines and domains - medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, fictional, and political - and demonstrates how these seemingly disparate realms interacted extensively with each other in this period, also across national boundaries. This widespread use and representation of the hermaphrodite established a ground on which new ideas concerning sex and gender could be elaborated by subsequent generations, and on which a wide range of thought concerning identity, racial, religious, and national as well as gender, could be deployed.

Author Biography

Kathleen P. Long is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Sex and Gender Wars 1(28)
Sexual Dissonance: Early Modern Scientific Accounts of Hermaphrodism
29(20)
The Cultural and Medical Construction of Gender: Caspar Bauhin
49(28)
Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites: Culture Wars in the Medical Profession
77(32)
Hermetic Hermaphrodites
109(28)
Gender and Power in the Alchemical Works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
137(26)
Lyric Hermaphrodites
163(26)
The Royal Hermaphrodite: Henri III of France
189(26)
Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Early Modern France
215(22)
Conclusion 237(8)
Bibliography 245(10)
Index 255

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