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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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| Judith in the Fine Arts: The Appeal of the
Archetypal Androgyne. The head of General
Molotov (all works 1994-2005), for example--a bust of a man whose green
plastic bib, studded with brass tacks, suggested a military uniform--had
been rudely bisected by a piece of glass topped with a lump of foam,
while the figure in Most Isolated Human Being was an armless,
gold-painted androgyne whose coral-colored brains appeared to be
spilling out of its head. The fulfillment of desire then consists
in the (re)union of two complementary bodies--the male with male, the
female with the female, and the androgyne with his or her other half,
once more forming an originary whole. |
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