Anne E. Linton, author of 'Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France', discusses the complex relationship between intersex bodies and their portrayal in medical cases and literature during 19th-century France. The podcast explores the historical terminology for intersex individuals, the untold intersex story of Erykchodin Balbon, societal understanding of intersexuality, the significance of clothing in representing gender, and the balance between revolutionary narratives and heteronormativity in literature.
