Herculine Barbin (memoir)

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite is a 1980 English-language translation of Herculine Barbin's nineteenth-century memoirs, which were originally written in French. The book contains an introduction by Michel Foucault, which only appears in the English-language translation of the memoirs. Foucault discovered Barbin's memoirs during his research about hermaphroditism for The History of Sexuality.

Herculine Barbin
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AuthorsHerculine Barbin
Michel Foucault
TranslatorRichard McDougall
CountryFrance
LanguageEnglish, French
PublisherPantheon Books
Publication date
June 12, 1980
Media typePrint
Pages199 (Pantheon Books paperback)
ISBN978-0-394-73862-8
OCLC5800446
616.69400924
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