The Hidden, suspicious, changeable sex. Shame and vigilance in the Early Modern Period
Project C02
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio; Dr. phil. Brendan Röder
Researcher
Project Description
The project explores the tension between shame and vigilance in relation to theories and practices of gender standardisation during the early modern period. In doing so, the inspection of genitalia and the recording of data relating to genitalia will be reconstructed and examined with regard to how these practices were coupled with the overarching goals of determining gender and maintaining set gender orders in the face of latent endangerment to them. Medical debates about ambiguous or metamorphosing genitalia and their epistemic-normative and legal-practical-situational implications will be examined.