Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain.
The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace 'the monstrous' and how might that embrace inform the construction of transgender hi...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 112 - 130 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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