The Androgyne in Early Modern France

The Androgyne in Early Modern France
Author: Marian Rothstein
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137541369

Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium , the androygyne during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full potential of humans made in the image of God. This book documents and comments on the range of references to the androgyne in the writings of poets, philosophers, courtiers, and women in positions of political power.

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe
Author: Kathleen P. Long
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754656098

Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the centrality of the hermaphrodite in early modern European thought. She explores the significance of this figure for the elaboration of notions of gender, national, racial, and religious identity.