While it is true that members of most sexually reproducing species can be defined as either male or female, those who belong to the rest of the biological world

Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and th

Analysis of sexual ambivalence in antiquity, which was both deeply threatening to the social order and profoundly attractive.

Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the

When Richard Goldschmidt' coined the term "intersexuality" in 1915, he intended it to apply to normally dioecious species which exhibit some kind of mixture bet