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By Alice Domurat Dreger. 268 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1998. $35. ISBN 0-674-08927-8.

The condition of hermaphroditism has been recognized since antiquity. The term derives from the Greek legend of the joining of Hermaphroditos and the nymph Salmacis into a single form that was neither male nor female, but both. Culturally, men and women are distinct, yet their sexual structures arise from common bipotential precursors. This fact explains how intersexuality can result from aberrations in the sexual-differentiation pathway.

In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Domurat Dreger chronicles the medical diagnosis and treatment of hermaphroditism from the perspective of both the subject and the medical community during the late 19th and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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