Hermaphodites in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
The imposible intersexuality
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https://doi.org/10.21680/1984-817X.2021v17n1ID21776Keywords:
Hermaphroditism, Intersexuality, Female MonasteriesAbstract
The article discusses the relationship between the traditional concept of hermaphroditism and the current concept of intersexuality, the first excluding or punishing individuals, the second affirmative, both from a medical point of view and in the field of collective and individual identities. The emoirical the analysis is based upon Iberian judicial cases of the 16th and 17th centuries, including, at last, a transcription of an inedict manuscript of the process against Claudiana da Natividade, a Portuguese nun. It concludes on the theoretical impossibility for the formulation of the concept of intersexuality in the intellectual, moral and scientific context of the Modern Age or the Ancient Regime.
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