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Medicalizing Difference: The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the "Hermaphrodite"

Contributor(s): Hilger, Stephanie M (Author)

ISBN: 9781350374966

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Pub Date: May 28, 2026

Dewey: 616.694

LCCN: 2024010982

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.44" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 0.65 lbs) 208 pages

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

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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.

Brief description: Stephanie M. Hilgeris 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

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