Defiant Bodies: Discourses on Intersex, 1573-2003

The first page of the pamphlet, which features a woodcut of an intersex figure.

The complexity of moral judgment attached to intersex identity is evident in early modern sources like Signes and wonders from heaven, which reports on the discovery of monstrous births, witches, and other paranormal activity in England and would have been geared toward a popular audience. Interestingly, intersex people are not discussed directly in this pamphlet, but a woodcut depicting an intersex individual is prominently displayed on the title page, demonstrating the association of intersex identity with monstrous births and supernatural occurrences.