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Article: Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
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- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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By LUC BRISSON. Translated by JANET LLOYD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 195. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
In this concise but stimulating work, Luc Brisson gathers together and translates a number of passages from ancient Greek and Roman authors that relate to the experience of "dual sexuality," defined by the author as "the simultaneous or successive possession of both sexes by a single individual" (1). By examining these texts--from various literary, historical, and philosophical sources--in their intellectual contexts, Brisson seeks to illuminate the role played by dual sexuality and its associated concepts of androgyny and ...