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androgyny [an′dräj·ə·nē] (medicine) A form of pseudohermaphroditism in humans in which the individual has female external sexual characteristics, but has undescended testes. Also known as male pseudohermaphroditism. Androgyny Hermaphrodites half-man, half-woman; offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 153] Cretan maiden reared as boy because father ordered all daughters killed. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 143] prophet who lived as man and a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255–256] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In the mid-'70s, just as art historians were resuscitating
forgotten artists like the Belgian Fernand Khnopff, who obsessively
painted sphinxes and androgynes as well as photographed his sister in
antique drag, Ontani -- in the midst of a profoundly personal
rediscovery of androgynous imagery in Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist art
-- was photographing himself in exalted and Old Masterish poses that
seemed to unlock his many doubles. |
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