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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] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | In Tropical Breeze, sweat pouring off the gorgeous physique of a heavily muscled lady trucker is absorbed with tissues proffered by a gamine androgyne, then packaged, their moistness preserved and made a selling point. According to Tarot scholar Christine Payne-Towler, "The theme of the androgyne or double-sexed magical entity is a subset of Gnostic speculation which harks back to the old Greek idea that before the soul's 'fall from heaven' into a physical body, it had to split into halves, one male and one female, to accommodate the duality of the material plane. The king and his mignons were often portrayed as a mix of hermaphrodite, androgyne, transvestite, and bisexual, thereby blending even more gender boundaries, and fueling ambiguity in the political, cultural, and literary domains of his reign. |
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