Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Seiten
2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-15955-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-15955-6 (ISBN)
Vicente analyses the philosophical, medical and legal debates about sexual difference in eighteenth-century Spain to demonstrate how formal definitions of man and woman often clashed with the reality of sex and gender, utilising case studies to trace the lives of particular individuals with ambiguous sexual and gender traits.
Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how 'nature and nurture' shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between 'real' and 'ideal' bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference - date back to the early modern period. Debating Sex and Gender is an innovative study of the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, Vicente traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual's sex. This book brings together insights from the histories of sexuality, medicine and the law to shed new light on this timely and important field of study.
Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how 'nature and nurture' shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between 'real' and 'ideal' bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference - date back to the early modern period. Debating Sex and Gender is an innovative study of the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, Vicente traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual's sex. This book brings together insights from the histories of sexuality, medicine and the law to shed new light on this timely and important field of study.
Marta V. Vicente is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She has published widely on the history of gender and sexuality and is author of Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic (2006).
Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The anatomy of sex; 2. Medical theory versus practice: the case of Sebastián/María Leirado; 3. Nature, nurture and early modern sexuality; 4. The body of law: legislating sex in eighteenth-century Spain; 5. Sex and gender: reconsidering the legacy of the enlightenment; Endnotes; Bibliograph.
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2017 |
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Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 470 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-107-15955-5 / 1107159555 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-15955-6 / 9781107159556 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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