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A review by sebast_torr
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Michel Foucault
4.0
A depressing memoir into the true beauty of being loved. Another example of just how far intersex people have come but, also painting a more nuanced portrait of the people that we try to view as a monolith of hate and bigotry.
Happy I read it but, I don’t believe I shall ever read it again. In particular because of the ending discussions of an autopsy felt far to invasive and private given the subject of the book and how the memoir itself was written. This is something I felt that the story should have done with out.
Happy I read it but, I don’t believe I shall ever read it again. In particular because of the ending discussions of an autopsy felt far to invasive and private given the subject of the book and how the memoir itself was written. This is something I felt that the story should have done with out.