Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex Birthing methods How We Break offers a

How We Break offers a consoling new vision of everyday human struggle

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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex Birthing methods How We Break offers aPunctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and