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The biblical book of Genesis famously includes two very different accounts of the creation of humanity. The first, which appears in Genesis 1:27, tells us that God created Adam and Eve simultaneously: “And God created man...
Apart from Ovid’s aitiology of the Goddess Hermaphroditos the speech of Aristophanes found in Plato’s Symposium is one of the most influential literary texts on hermaphrodite/androgynous bodies. Like all speeches in the Symposium, it is a...
For the longue durée history of hermaphrodites, the Encyclopédie and Diderot’s works are of paramount importance; they have been and will continue to be the subject of various posts on this blog (https://intersex.hypotheses.org/tag/encyclopedie, https://intersex.hypotheses.org/tag/diderot). In this...
Die Rede des Aristophanes (https://intersex.hypotheses.org/3947), insbesondere die Geschichte vom ursprünglich androgynen “Kugelmenschen”, hatte eine lang anhaltende Rezeptionsgeschichte. Aus dem 20. Jahrhundert greife ich heute Sigmund Freud heraus, der sie im Rahmen seiner Studie “Jenseits des Lustprinzips”...
For centuries, the figure of the hermaphrodite was dominant in learned discourse on bodies between the sexes. At the same time, the terminology of hermaphroditism was used in many other ways, and these uses are likewise...
Neben Ovids Aitiologie des Gottes Hermaphroditos dürfte die Rede des Aristophanes in Platons (gest. 348/347 v. Chr.) Symposion zu den am weitesten rezipierten literarischen Quellen zur Figur des Hermaphroditen zählen. Die Rede zu Ehren des Eros,...
You thought Spain was a an unlikely place to look for Enlightenement discourse on hermaphrodites? Then think Guatemala. Or, read the posts on Spain first, and then the article on Mexico Enrique brought to my attention,...
As some readers of this blog know, I’ve been a canon law historian long before I began to think about hermaphrodites or intersex in history. On the whole, (medieval) canon law is largely silent on hermaphrodites....
The Mexican case Martínez 2016 has studied (and Enrique has brought to attention) is a welcome addition to the corpus of primary sources on early modern hermaphrodites, all the more as scholarship traditionally has time and...
Having posted on Kantorowicz’ King’s two bodies (https://intersex.hypotheses.org/3702) reminds me of John of Salisbury and his Policraticus, an important medieval source for the ‘body politic’ Kantorowicz was so interested in. This body is a figure found...