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Fernanda Fernández
Fernanda Fernández (Zújar, Granada, 1755 – fl. 1792) was a Spanish nun, found to have an intersex trait following an investigation that Fernández initiated, and subsequently reclassified as male. Early life Fernanda Fernández took religious vows and became a nun at the age of eighteen in April 1774. In 1787, she told her confessor that she was developing male genitals, and asked to be removed from the nunnery. She was placed in isolation and became the central figure in an investigation conducted by the church. The archbishop, theologians and physicians were consulted. Departing the nunnery After an examination by a certified midwife, Fernández was certified as a male, and was forced to leave the nunnery on January 21, 1792. After more thorough examinations by physicians and midwives, Fernández was confirmed to have a small penis able to produce semen. Tomás Romay y Chacón, ''Historia Natural. Descripción de un hermafrodita: Diario del gobierno de La Habana'' (8 May 18 ...
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Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ...
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Zújar
Zújar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census ( INE), the city has a population of 2746 inhabitants. See also * List of municipalities in Granada Province of Granada, Granada is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 174 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, Granada is the ... References Municipalities in the Province of Granada {{Granada-geo-stub ...
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Province Of Granada
Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropical). Its capital city is also called Granada. The province covers an area of . Its population was 921,338 , of whom about 30% live in the capital, and its average population density is . It contains 170 municipalities. There are certain conception about the ''autonomous community of Granada'' being separate from Andalusia. The new autonomous community would consist of the provinces of Granada, Almería and Málaga. The conception has not yet found a response. Geography The tallest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula, Mulhacén, is located in Granada. It measures . The next highest mountains in the province are Veleta () and Alcazaba (). The river Genil, which rises in Granada, is one of the main tributaries of the Guadalquivir. Oth ...
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Intersex
Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's external genitalia. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:4,500–1:2,000 (0.02%–0.05%). Other conditions involve the development of atypical chromosomes, gonads, or hormones. The portion of the population that is intersex has been reported differently depending on which definition of intersex is used and which conditions are included. Estimates range from 0.018% (one in 5,500 births) to 1.7%. The difference centers on whether conditions in which chromosomal sex matches a phenotypic sex which is clearly identifiable as male or female, such as late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia (1.5 percentage points) and Kline ...
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Intersex In History
Intersex, in humans and other animals, describes variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". Intersex people were historically termed hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs",Mason, H.J., Favorinus’ Disorder: Reifenstein's Syndrome in Antiquity?, in Janus 66 (1978) 1–13. or even congenitally "frigid". Such terms have fallen out of favor, now considered to be misleading and stigmatizing. Intersex people have been treated in different ways by different cultures. Whether or not they were socially tolerated or accepted by any particular culture, the existence of intersex people was known to many ancient and pre-modern cultures and legal systems, and numerous historical accounts exist. Ancient history Sumer A Sumerian creation myth from more than 4,000 years ago has Ninmah, a mother goddess, fashionin ...
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Timeline Of Intersex History
The following is a timeline of intersex history. Timeline Pre-history * Sumerian creation myths, 4000 years ago, include the fashioning of a body with atypical sex characteristics. Antiquity * Hippocrates and Galen view sex as a spectrum between men and women, with "many shades in between, including hermaphrodites, a perfect balance of male and female". * Aristotle view hermaphrodites as having "doubled or superfluous genitals". 2nd century BCE *Callon of Epidaurus undergoes surgery on ambiguous genitalia, described by Diodorus Siculus. *Diophantus of Abae socially transitions and joins the army of Alexander Balas. 1st century BCE * Diodorus Siculus describes the god Hermaphroditus, "born of Hermes and Aphrodite", as having "a physical body which is a combination of that of a man and that of a woman"; he also reports that such children born with such traits are seen as prodigies, able to foretell future events. 43 BCE – 17/18 CE * Ovid describes the birth of Hermaphr ...
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Eleno De Céspedes
Eleno de Céspedes, also known as Elena de Céspedes (c. 1545 – ''died after'' 1588), was an Afro-Spanish surgeon and soldier. While Céspedes was assumed to be a girl at birth and was initially married to a man, Céspedes later adopted a male identity and served as a soldier during the second Rebellion of the Alpujarras, eventually becoming a surgeon in peace time and marrying a woman. Céspedes' sex was subject to dispute as a possibly intersex individual, leading to a trial by the Spanish Inquisition on charges of sodomy, witchcraft, transvestism, and bigamy. Céspedes was acquitted of the more serious charges but was sentenced to a ten years of confinement for bigamy, which was commuted to service in a public hospital in acknowledgement of the value of Céspedes' medical skills. After this Céspedes lived as a successful surgeon and celebrity. Early life, first marriage, and travels Elena de Céspedes was born around 1545 in Alhama de Granada in Andalusia, Spain. Céspedes ...
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1755 Births
Events January–March * January 23 (O. S. January 12, Tatiana Day, nowadays celebrated on January 25) – Moscow University is established. * February 13 – Treaty of Giyanti: The kingdom of Mataram on Java is divided in two, creating the sultanate of Yogyakarta and the sunanate of Surakarta. * March 12 – A steam engine is used in the American colonies for the first time as New Jersey copper mine owner Arent Schuyler installs a Newcomen atmospheric engine to pump water out of a mineshaft. * March 22 – Britain's House of Commons votes in favor of £1,000,000 of appropriations to expand the British Army and Royal Navy operations in North America. * March 26 – General Edward Braddock and 1,600 British sailors and soldiers arrive at Alexandria, Virginia on transport ships that have sailed up the Potomac River. Braddock, sent to take command of the British forces against the French in North America, commandeers taverns and private homes t ...
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18th-century Spanish Nuns
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, ...
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Spanish Intersex People
Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture **Languages of Spain, the various languages in Spain Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Canada * Spanish River (other), the name of several rivers * Spanish Town, Jamaica Other uses * John J. Spanish (1922–2019), American politician * "Spanish" (song), a single by Craig David, 2003 See also * * * Español (other) * Spain (other) * España (other) * Espanola (other) * Hispania, the Roman and Greek name for the Iberian Peninsula * Hispanic, the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain * Hispanic (other) * Hispanism * Spain (other) * National and regional identity in Spain * Culture of Spain The culture of Spain is influenced by its Western w ...
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