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.
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Authors | Herculine Barbin Michel Foucault |
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Translator | Richard McDougall |
Country | France |
Language | English, French |
Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Publication date | June 12, 1980 |
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Pages | 199 (Pantheon Books paperback) |
ISBN | 978-0-394-73862-8 |
OCLC | 5800446 |
616.69400924 |
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