Beschreibung
From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.
Autorenportrait
RUTH GILBERT is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. She is co-editor with Erica Fudge and Susan Wiseman of At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period.
