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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...

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Published in:Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 112 - 130
Main Author: Gust, Onni
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2024
Subjects:
Transgender history
Transgender people
Intersex people
Intersexuality
Monsters
Mermaids
Heteronormativity
Anthropocentrism
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