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Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite) (1st Edition) by Michel Foucault (Introduction), Richard Mcdougall (Translator), Herculine Barbin, M. Mcdougall Foucault Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1980 ISBN-10: 0-394-73862-4 / 0394738624 ISBN-13: 978-0-394-73862-8 / 9780394738628 With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ri |