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Article: Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Kathleen P. Long. Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. x + 268 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5609-8.
Kathleen P. Long's exploration of the hermaphrodite in Europe provides a rich and revealing study of this figure in the early modern period, and presents an interdisciplinary and intertextual approach to gender studies. Indeed, the broad variety of documents analyzed in this book is impressively extensive: scientific and alchemical treatises, political pamphlets, medical texts, novels, and poetry. According to Long, the hermaphrodite is an ...