Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)


"The erotic diary of Barbin, who as a young woman was suddenly reclassified as a man, details the story of her metamorphosis, offering a unique perspective of human sexuality"

I read this book a few months ago and thought of it when the class mentioned hermaphroditic individuals, the first half of the book is the memoirs of Herculine Barbin and the second half is a medical overview of their case by the doctor who discovered their condition.

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