Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 - Garcia Francisco Vazquez
Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 - Garcia Francisco Vazquez Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. This book traces this change in…
Specifikacia Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 - Garcia Francisco Vazquez
Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 - Garcia Francisco Vazquez
Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this 'one-sex' model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition.