Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls & the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated f…

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