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A Man and a Perpetuum Mobile? : Assigned Hermaphrodite Andreas Bruce’s Memoirs
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Ingår i: Gender and History. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0953-5233 .- 1468-0424. ; 35:1, s. 141-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the memoirs of Andreas Bruce, a Swedish man that was assigned female sex at birth and later re-assigned sex as a male hermaphrodite. His memoirs, written by the end of the nineteenth century, are unique in their kind. They exhibit a rare example of a what life could be like for gender transgressors during the nineteenth century. According to the memoirs, Bruce’s transition and legal gender recognition was the source of some attention, but once he had gained a certificate of hermaphroditism and a male first name, his masculinity seldom seems to have been contested. Bruce navigates between describing himself as an ordinary man, and describing his life story as unique.
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Conditions of a Feminine Man : Rumors of a “Hermaphrodite” Pastrycook in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - : Sage Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 24:2, s. 258-277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The pastrycook Aron Forss was a well-known person in his hometown Uppsala in the 1840’s and 1850’s, famous both for his popular café and for his femininity. This article analyses the rumors that surrounded his person, using paintings, newspaper clippings, and memoirs written by his former customers. Through his business, Forss could lay claim on normative masculinity through the rousing bourgeois ideals of financial success and craftsmanship. Being a successful businessman was a way of securing social acceptance and respectability. However, it was apparently not enough. In order to sustain his business, Forss was forced to put up with harassments. Some of his costumers treated him much like other women in public places were treated—as objects of sexual advance. Several of Forss’s contemporaries describe him with particular fascination. By describing Forss as a spectacle, he is made an exception to the rules of social appropriateness.
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