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”The True Sex”. Trouble with Hermaphrodites

”The True Sex”. Trouble with Hermaphrodites. Bente Rosenbeck Center for Gender Studies, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistic , University of Copenhagen (Greek hermaphrodite statue, National Museum, Stockholm). Queen Christina. Queen Christina (1626-1689).

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”The True Sex”. Trouble with Hermaphrodites

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  1. ”The True Sex”. TroublewithHermaphrodites • Bente Rosenbeck Center for Gender Studies, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistic, University of Copenhagen (Greek hermaphrodite statue, National Museum, Stockholm)

  2. Queen Christina

  3. Queen Christina (1626-1689) • "But that I am asked to marry is a difficult thing to decide, since thereafter I would never be free, but tied, and I would never be able to escape from it.” (Nordisk Kvindelitteraturhistorie 1998 vol. I: 308) • “insurmountable distaste for marriage” (ibid) • Split being – double human being –androgynity • Hermaphrodite? • Thomas Laqueur: one-sex model • J. Butler: to do boy/man - performativity

  4. Thomas Laqueur: Making sex. Body and gender from the greeks to Freud. 1990 Michel Foucault: HerculineBarbin. Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite 1977 Alice DregerHermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Harvard University Press, 1998. Bibliotek for læger 1950- Karen Vallgårdaartikel 2005

  5. Miss M. N. 1892 • Richard Blom • Rejected the primary and secondarygendercharacteristics • Sexualattraction ( desire – object) could serve as a guide to determininggender • Genderambivalence: recommend the male gender • Advicetoday: recommend the femalegender

  6. HerculeBarbin/Alexina • HerculeBarbin/Alexina • Chambermaid/teacher • Legal genderchange in 1860 • What was it that revealed that Alexina was actually a man? • Behaviour – no • Sperm-like fluid • Attracted to the female sex – yes (desire)

  7. Vilhelmine Møller/Vilhelmi • double human being / split being in the memoirs • Deformed sexual organs • The counsel for the defense pleaded a mild punishment • bridge between man and woman • lived under “unnatural conditions” • “mitigating circumstances”

  8. EdleBrandsholm • Hermaphroditism • Homosexuality • Homosocial • Masculine

  9. Gerda Wegner: Lili Elbe

  10. Lili Elbe • Man into Woman - the Recollections of Lili Elbe 1931 • Andreas Spare/ • Einer Wegner – Gerda Wegner Sandy Stone: PosttranssexualManifesto 1991 Dag Hede Sabine Meyer

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