The Hidden, suspicious, changeable sex. Shame and vigilance in the Early Modern Period (C02)

• Subject Area: History of Science
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490

The project explores the tension between shame and vigilance in relation to theories and practices of gender standardisation during the early modern period. In doing so, the inspection of genitalia and the recording of data relating to genitalia will be reconstructed and examined with regard to how these practices were coupled with the overarching goals of determining gender and maintaining set gender orders in the face of latent endangerment to them. Medical debates about ambiguous or metamorphosing genitalia and their epistemic-normative and legal-practical-situational implications will be examined.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1369: Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations - Spaces - Practices
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio; Dr. Brendan Röder