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[caption id="attachment_2794" align="alignright" width="202"] "In March read the books you've always meant to read": WPA poster, ca. 1935. Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/98507722/; Licence: PD.[/caption]"In March read the books you've always meant to read", the WPA encourages us all. So, for starters, here's a list of books (monographs only) published in the last five years which are more or less relevant to the topic of this blog - some I haven't seen yet may turn out to be completely irrelevant, of course.José Pablo Barragán Nieto, El De secretis mulierum atribuido a Alberto Magno. Edición crítica, estudio y traducción, Porto 2012. [A very welcome study on this important text, of which Barragán Nieto identifies no less than 85 manuscripts containing often very different versions Pseudo-Albert.]Eva Maria Calvi, Eine Überschreitung der Geschlechtergrenzen? Intersexualität in der 'westlichen Gesellschaft', Baden-Baden 2012. [Review (in German): http://kritisch-lesen.de/rezension/konstruierte-nicht-existenz]Estela Antoaneta Ciobanu, The spectacle of the body in late medieval England, Iasi 2012. [http://books.google.de/books?id=iLz5tKskok8C]Richard Cleminson, Los hermafroditas: medicina e identidad sexual en España (1850-1960), 2012. [https://books.google.de/books?id=9uSFtgAACAAJ]Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García, Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800, London 2013.  [for my review (in German), see here: http://intersex.hypotheses.org/1033]Anthony Corbeill, Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome, Princeton 2015. [https://books.google.de/books?id=eZKSBAAAQBAJ]Ellen K. Feder, Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine, Bloomington 2014. [http://books.google.de/books?id=8elhAwAAQBAJ]Patrick Graille, Le troisième sexe: être hermaphrodite aux XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, Paris 2011.Fabienne Imlinger, Hermaphroditische Anatomien, Würzburg 2015. [https://books.google.de/books?id=MOdirgEACAAJ]Danielle Jacquart, Recherches médiévales sur la nature humaine: essais sur la réflexion médicale, XIIe-XVe siècles (Micrologus' library 63), Florence 2014.Helen King, The one-sex body on trial. The classical and early modern evidence (The History of Medicine in Context), London 2013. [http://books.google.de/books?id=ZkaiAgAAQBAJ]Luciano López Gutiérrez, Portentos y prodigios del Siglo de Oro, 2012. [https://books.google.de/books?id=F9V_B5PEAawC]Nicole Loraux, The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man, 2014. [https://books.google.de/books?id=-0gABAAAQBAJ]Geertje Mak, Doubting sex. Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories, Manchester 2013. [http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10623252]Erika Nussberger, Zwischen Tabu und Skandal: Hermaphroditen von der Antike bis heute, Wien, Köln und Weimar 2014. [http://books.google.de/books?id=IVa-mwEACAAJ]Glenn W. Olsen, Of sodomites, effeminates, hermaphrodites, and androgynes. Sodomy in the age of Peter Damian (Studies and texts 176), Toronto 2011. [An excellent book, with only one qualification to make: it is not about hermaphrodites or androgynes, not even remotely; rather it is, as the subtitle duly indicates, a study on sodomy in the Middle Ages.]Alison Oram, Her husband was a woman! Women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture, London 2013. [http://books.google.de/books?id=dhLsyYnj6SIC]Mehl Allan Penrose, Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, 2014. [http://books.google.de/books?id=jMmaBAAAQBAJ]Kirk D. Read, Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction, 2013. [https://books.google.de/books?id=Dq-EXOVP3nsC]David Rollo, Kiss my relics. Hermaphroditic fictions of the Middle Ages, Chicago 2011. [http://books.google.de/books?id=-qHu1df4m2MC]Marian Rothstein, The Androgyne in early-modern France: Contextualizing the power of gender, New York 2015. [https://books.google.ch/books?id=7DLeCgAAQBAJ]Patricia Simons, The sex of men in premodern Europe. A cultural history, Cambridge 2011. [https://books.google.de/books?id=HcWfbH9_6p4C]François Soyer, Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal: inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms, Leiden 2012. [http://books.google.de/books?id=LxqzbYdSeuYC]Jennifer Spinks, Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World), 2015. [https://books.google.de/books?id=uGVECgAAQBAJ]Sherry Marie Velasco, Lesbians in Early Modern Spain, 2011. [http://books.google.de/books?id=ouHqtw239HwC]Heinz-Jürgen Voß, Intersexualität - Intersex : eine Intervention, Münster 2012.Kathrin Zehnder, Zwitter beim Namen nennen. Intersexualität zwischen Pathologie, Selbstbestimmung und leiblicher Erfahrung, Bielefeld 2011.