The Sleeping Hermaphrodite Fiction aesthetics and subjectivity

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Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology’s current return to the theoretical center stage

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Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University

The Sleeping Hermaphrodite Fiction aesthetics and subjectivityWaking up from a Lethargic Confinement What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is the sleeping Hermaphrodite really asleep? Or has she he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization?