(Alice Domurat Dreger, “Hermaphrodites in Love: The Truth of the Gonads,” in Science and Homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario [Routledge, 1997], pp. 46-66.)

This piece discusses the convergence of late-nineteenth century concepts of hermaphroditism and homosexuality. Chapter four of Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex contains much of the same material as this article.

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Hermaphrodites in Love:

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