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Article: The Hermaphrodite.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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The Hermaphrodite. By Julia Ward Howe. Edited and with an Introduction by Gary Williams. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 260 pp. $27.95.
With the publication of The Hermaphrodite one hundred and fifty years after she wrote the novel, Julia Ward Howe springs into the twenty-first century, demanding that we reconsider her work and revise our ideas about sex and sexuality in nineteenth-century America. The publication of the book is one of the most exciting developments in nineteenth-century American literary studies of the past decades. It parallels the recovery of many other works by women and writers of color, but because it is an intersexual text, ...