Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Herculine Barbin, Herculine Barbin, Richard McDougall

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite

Herculine Barbin, Herculine Barbin, Richard McDougall with Michel Foucault (Translator)

224 pages • first pub 1978 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective slow-paced
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With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic o...

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