A Mystery Still: Historical (Trans)Gender Variance & James “Miranda” Barry
A free public lecture by Ann Heilmann examines how representations of the nineteenth-century military surgeon James Barry have shifted across Victorian, twentieth-century and contemporary writing and imagery. AI summary of the listing
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This lecture focuses on the intense posthumous speculation about the reputedly female body of the high-raking nineteenth-century military surgeon James Barry (1789?-1865). The instabilities in the factual Barry’s self-construction and the sensational disclosures after his death underpin Victorian, twentieth century and contemporary representations of the re-imagined Barry’s slippery gender/sex identities. How has…
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