Early Modern Hermaphrodites

Sex and Other Stories

By: Ruth Gilbert

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Hardcover | 29 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Sex and Other Stories	p. 1
On Gods and Monsters: Defining the Early Modern Hermaphrodite	p. 9
The androgynous ideal: religious and philosophical images	p. 14
The embodied sign: monstrous hermaphroditism	p. 19
Masculine, feminine and hermaphrodite: hermaphroditized gender	p. 25
Telling the Truth of Sex: the Hermaphrodite in Biology and Law	p. 33
Sexual difference/sameness: the biology of hermaphroditism	p. 35
Legal problems and hermaphroditic solutions	p. 41
Both and Neither: Rewriting Ovid's Hermaphrodite	p. 51
More than a man, less than a woman: Elizabeth I and hermaphroditic androgyny	p. 52
Metamorphic origins: Ovid's 'Salmacis and Hermaphroditus'	p. 57
'A worthy sense': moral readings and rewritings	p. 60
'Their nature knowne too much': the Jacobean and Caroline contexts	p. 64
Hermes and Aphrodite: the parentage of Hermaphroditus	p. 68
'Wanton lines': Beaumont's epyllion	p. 70
Mingle-Mangle: Masculine Women and Feminine Men	p. 77
Acting out of gender: the debate	p. 81
'Nature topsie-turvie': siblings, doubling and division	p. 85
Performing gender: Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse	p. 92
'Rare enigmatick Robbin': hermaphroditic relationships	p. 97
Every Heteroclite Part: the Monstrous Hermaphrodite and the English Revolution	p. 104
'Thy right legge takes thy left to dance': Cleveland's hermaphrodite	p. 106
'Fortune's jigg': the hermaphrodite image in the popular press	p. 118
(En)Gendering power: the hermaphroditic body politic	p. 126
Re-membering power	p. 132
Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and the Hermaphrodite	p. 136
Seeing and knowing	p. 137
The science of pornography/the pornography of science	p. 139
Naming the parts: the hermaphrodite as object of enquiry	p. 142
Case histories, curiosities and display	p. 144
Foreign parts: tribades, hermaphrodites and colonialism	p. 149
Unspeakable desires: the hermaphrodite as erotic entertainment	p. 154
Epilogue: Re/covering the Early Modern Hermaphrodite	p. 158
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 210
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