Overview
Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the centrality of the hermaphrodite in early modern European thought. She explores the significance of this figure for the elaboration of notions of gender, national, racial, and religious identity.
- | Author: Kathleen P. Long
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: May 26, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 280 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0754656098
- | ISBN-13: 9780754656098
