Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394508214 (0394508211)
Publish date: June 1st 1980
Publisher: Pantheon Books (NY)
Pages no: 219
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Philosophy,
Sexuality,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gender,
Gender Studies
This book called an "erotic diary" was actually assigned reading in a political science course. This is the memoir of Herculine Barbin, a hermaphrodite who lived from 1838 to 1868, designated female at birth and then forced to take on a male identity when an affair with a women resulted in her physi...