Description: "Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this book draws on insights from gender, critical race, and disability studies. It uses the genre of the 'case study' to offer a careful historicization of 18th-century medicine's construction of the category of the hermaphrodite"--
Brief description: Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), where she also holds an appointment in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Review Quotes: "Stephanie M. Hilger is a respected expert in the field of intersex in eighteenth century Europe, which this book will further confirm." --KJ Dykstra, Independent Scholar, Canada