Männlich - weiblich - zwischen Towards a longue durée history of ambiguously sexed bodies
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...
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...
The magazine Hommes et Libertés will publish an article about the legal situation of intersex persons in France, see https://sexandlaw.hypotheses.org/363
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 –...
Die populärwissenschaftliche WDR-Sendung “Quarks & Co” hat eine 45-minütige Folge zu Geschlecht ausgestrahlt; es geht um körperliches und soziales Geschlecht, in insgesamt drei der neun Einzelbeiträge geht es direkt um Intersexualität. Die Sendung kann hier gestreamt...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....