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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
Herculine Barbin Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a NineteenthCentury French Hermaphrodite
Author: Herculine Barbin, RichardMcDougall (translator), Michel Foucault (introduction)
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 orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394738628
ISBN-10: 0394738624
Publication Date: 6/12/1980
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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