Kategorie: Frühe Neuzeit (16.-18. Jh.)
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....
There were some insidious ideas and attitudes that arose almost automatically in discussions of hermaphrodites, and these seem to transcend time and space. Some of these same issues arose from Martina’s case as well. One of...
Ironically, the very visibility of the body could sometimes lead to unusual challenges by colonial authorities. In Nueva Granada in the 1670s the Jesuit Diego Ximenez was caught in the snares of the Inquisition tribunal as...
Cases like that of Martina Parra provide us an opportunity to explore layers of attitudes and thoughts, mentalitées and practices, as different subaltern and dominant groups became involved. By putting the concerns raised by Martina’s sexual...
Renée Soulodre-La France has kindly agreed to have her article ‘What is in a body?’ republished via this blog. It originally appeared online in La Habana Elegante – Revista de literatura y cultura cubana, caribeña, latinoamericana,...
Thinking about sex and gender in past societies invariably makes you think how we could possible know the individual sex or gender or any person who lived centuries ago. In practice, we often rely on given...
[…] so wurde ich jedoch unter der Wacht streng examinirt / und gleich wie sich die Soldaten an mir vergafften/ also betrachtet ich hingegen ihres Officiers dollen Auffzug / dem ich Red und Antwort geben muste;...
Both Felix Platter and Caspar Bauhin were involved in the case of Anna Jakob Bürgin (see https://intersex.hypotheses.org/4653), and both published accounts of the case. Platter did so in his Observationes, Bauhin in a voluminous book on...
Jede Übersetzung ist Interpretation, das gilt auch für die von Sarah-Maria Schober kürzlich hier im Blog (https://intersex.hypotheses.org/4653) zitierte Übersetzung von Felix Platters Bericht zur vermeintlichen Hermaphroditin Anna Jakob Bürgin. Ich trage den lateinischen Text nach, denn...
Im Jahr 1609 erregte im reformierten Basel ein Fall sexuellen Fehlverhaltens Aufsehen: Das Dienstmädchen Anna Bürgin wurde angeklagt, ihre Dienstherrin verführt zu haben – und folglich ein Mann zu sein. Das “Knabenmägdlein”, als das Anna in den Quellen...