L’autre du sexe

• Published in: Socio
• Main Author: Salle, Muriel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2017
• Subjects: hermaphrodisme; tératologie; différence des sexes; histoire de la médecine; siècle; intersexe; intersexué; transgenre; Inuit; anthropologie; troisième sexe social; Françoise Héritier; Bernard Saladin d’Anglure; hermaphroditism; teratology; sexual difference; history of medicine; 19th century; intersex; trans; anthropology; third social sex; genre; scipo; Françoise; inuit
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/socio/3025

The ways scientists think the difference of the sexes evolve, as Laqueur showed it, in the 17th-18th centuries, which lead to a complete re-evaluation of the figures of the hermaphrodite and the homosexual in the 19th century. Built as anomalies rather than as diseases strictly speaking, the hermaph...