Herculine Barbin. Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century hermaphrodite, introduced by Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 199, £7.95.

G. S. Rousseau

doi:10.1017/S002572730003444X

Herculine Barbin. Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century hermaphrodite, introduced by Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 199, £7.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2012

G. S. Rousseau

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Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

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Information: Medical History , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 211 - 212

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Herculine Barbin. Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century hermaphrodite, introduced by Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 199, £7.95.

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