On Being Dragged into #ReceptioGate
While I am not on Twitter or Mastodon myself, several friends and colleagues have kindly informed me that my name was mentioned in context of #ReceptioGate and that my work seems to have been plagiarised. This...
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Material (primary sources and blogposts) in English
‘All humans are male, female, or hermaphrodite’ (Rolandus Passagerii)
In the past decade or so, a number of countries have changed their laws and statutes concerning the legal status of intersex people. In Germany, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled in autumn 2017 that the...
The Last Days of Taurus – When Hermaphrodites Are Born…
Many contributions to this blog convincingly show that the Middle Ages (or, more generally, the premodern period) were quite familiar with the figure of the «hermaphrodite» as well as with a range of physiological aspects of...
Philippe de Vigneulles and the double-sexed monk from Issoire
Sara McDougall brought to my attention a short passage in the famous chronicle of Philippe de Vigneulles (d. 1528) concerning a ‘double-sexed’ monk giving birth to a child in 1478. The same story was reported by...
New definition of ‘female’ by IAFF
Changing sex and gender is a rare event – unless, of course, you are a professional athlete. The rules who is allowed to compete in the male and female categories respectively are changing relatively quickly –...
First Latin American Regional Conference of Intersex Persons
Brújula Intersexual has published the English version of the declaration which was put forward during the first “Conferencia Regional Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Personas Intersex” (Latin American Regional Conference of Intersex Persons) lasting from March...
Sex reassignment surgery in a turkish medieval manuscript
Medieval images of intersex persons (or hermaphrodites, as they were known) are rare. This has to do with a very simple reason, as intersex persons were living most of the time a perfectly conventional life, as...
Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender and hermaphrodites (Greek and English)
Medieval and, to a lesser extent, early modern theologians surpringly often ‘discussed’ the possibility the Adam was created hermaphrodite. I say ‘discussed’ as the position was pretty much a straw man – there is very little...
A hermaphrodite in the Archives nationales: Paris, AN X1A 14
The endlessly rich but also endlessly daunting records of the Paris Parlement have become increasingly user-friendly with the arrival of some search aids and databases provided by the wonderful Institut d’Histoire du Droit: http://www.ihd.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique3&lang=fr A word...
Renée Soulodre-La France, What is in a body? Part V
The temporal context for this case is rendered more intelligible given the influence of the enlightenment and the twin objectives of colonial authorities to reform society by civilizing the population while simultaneously solidifying its Christian morality....
