Introduction -- I. Inscription -- 1. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment -- 2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- 3. Herculine Barbin -- II. Body -- 4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- 5. Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics -- 6. The dislodgement of the person -- III. Self -- 7. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue -- 8. The turn inwards -- 9. Scripting the self: N.O. Body's autobiography -- Conclusion.
Introduction -- I. Inscription -- 1. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment -- 2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- 3. Herculine Barbin -- II. Body -- 4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- 5. Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics -- 6. The dislodgement of the person -- III. Self -- 7. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue -- 8. The turn inwards -- 9. Scripting the self: N.O. Body's autobiography -- Conclusion.
Introduction -- I. Inscription -- 1. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment -- 2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- 3. Herculine Barbin -- II. Body -- 4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- 5. Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics -- 6. The dislodgement of the person -- III. Self -- 7. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue -- 8. The turn inwards -- 9. Scripting the self: N.O. Body's autobiography -- Conclusion.
