Towards a longue durée history of ambiguously sexed bodies. / Auf dem Weg zu einer langen Geschichte geschlechtlich uneindeutiger Körper
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von Christof Rolker · Published 25/05/2018 · Last modified 15/05/2018
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...
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von Klaus Oschema · Published 18/05/2018 · Last modified 14/05/2018
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...
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von saramcdougall · Published 13/05/2018 · Last modified 28/05/2018
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...
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von saramcdougall · Published 17/03/2018 · Last modified 28/05/2018
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...
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von reneesoulodrelafrance · Published 07/03/2018 · Last modified 09/05/2018
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....
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von reneesoulodrelafrance · Published 02/03/2018 · Last modified 09/05/2018
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...
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von reneesoulodrelafrance · Published 23/02/2018 · Last modified 27/02/2018
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...
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von reneesoulodrelafrance · Published 19/02/2018 · Last modified 27/02/2018
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,...
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The blog deals with the history of ambiguously sexed bodies, mainly in the West, from Antiquity to the present. What kind of lives lived ‚hermaphrodites’ (as they were called), how were they perceived and how were they ignored, as it was often the case? The blog presents historical scholarship, methodological issues and primary sources relating to a longue durée history of ambiguously sexed bodies.
Das Blog thematisiert die Geschichte geschlechtlich uneindeutiger Körper, vor allem in Europa, von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Wie lebten „Hermaphroditen“, wie sie lange meist genannt wurden, wie wurden sie wahrgenommen, wie wurden sie (häufig genug) nicht wahrgenommen? Das Blog soll historische Forschung, methodische Fragen und Primärtexte zur Diskussion stellen, die zu einer „langen Geschichte“ uneindeutiger Körper beitragen können.
