The Androgyne in Early Modern France
The Androgyne in Early Modern France

Author: Marian Rothstein

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137541369

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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.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780754656098

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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.