Digital Transgender Archive
Facts Connected with the Life of James Carey
Content warning: This item includes extremely dehumanizing language and visual depictions of intersex people and bodies. This item documents a post-mortem investigation of intersex person James Carrey conducted at the request of University of Pennsylvania faculty. The document includes a brief account of Carrey's medical condition, life story, and detailed anatomical lithographs of his genitals. The study is informed by anti-intersex, ableist, and anti-Irish racial anxieties.
- Identifier
- v692t656q
- Collection
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Academic Papers and Publications
- Institution
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American Antiquarian Society
- Creator(s)
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Akin, James
- Contributor(s)
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Paxson, S.W.
Wilson, Isaac
Sunderland, Jacob
Chandler, George
King, Henry G.
Hickman, John J.
Glenat, Mary
Glenat Joseph
Deschamps, Edward
Fraley, W.W.
Quintin, Thomas
- Date Issued
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1839
- Genre
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Pamphlets
- Subject(s)
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James Carey
University of Pennsylvania
- Places
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Pennsylvania
>
Philadelphia County
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City of Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
New Jersey
- Topic(s)
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Intersex
Medicalization
- Resource Type
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Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://gigi.mwa.org/imagearchive/filename/223184_
- Rights
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Copyright undetermined
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