Herculine Barbin
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299086562 (129908656X)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Vintage Books
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...