The Third Sex: A Conceptual and Physiological Examination of Eunuchs in Qajar court (1796-1886)

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Journal: JOURNAL OF IRAN HISTORY (JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES) Year:2019 | Volume:12 | Issue:1 Page(s): 167-184

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The Third Sex: A Conceptual and Physiological Examination of Eunuchs in Qajar court (1796-1886)

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eunuchQ1

slaveQ3

womanQ1

sexQ1

childQ2

Medical historyQ2

QajarQ2

Abstract

eunuch still remains as an unexamined concept in Persian history so far. In addition, eunuchs have not been anatomically and physiologically investigated. And all of scholars’ ‘ supposition’ is that the eunuchs were males. This article, however, has turned such suppositions into the locus of its research questions. Thus, the fundamental question of the present article is how can eunuchs be defined sexually? Did the eunuchs actually define themselves as man? Or did they pretend to be women so that they could have relationships with women in harem? The research hypothesis is that eunuch cannot be regarded as male or female, rather it is about the third sex that possess some biological traits on the one hand and some biological and sexual feminine traits on the othe. This article shows that some of these male children are castrated as a child and so they lose one of the most important biological characteristics of the male and others that were naturally and congenitally capable of this profession or, in modern medical terms, they were afflicted with micro-penis. Physically and morphologically some organs of eunuchs such as facial shape, lack of beard and featured breasts gave them a feminine appearance. The third sex theory introductory presented in this paper involves the idea that at least some of the eunuchs are examples of androgynie, not in its Jungian taxonomy, being an example of the male and female hybrids at the physical level.

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KHAZAEI, YAGHOUB. (2019). The Third Sex: A Conceptual and Physiological Examination of Eunuchs in Qajar court (1796-1886). JOURNAL OF IRAN HISTORY (JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES), 12(1 ), 167-184. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/398505/en

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KHAZAEI YAGHOUB. The Third Sex: A Conceptual and Physiological Examination of Eunuchs in Qajar court (1796-1886). JOURNAL OF IRAN HISTORY (JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES)[Internet]. 2019;12(1 ):167-184. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/398505/en

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YAGHOUB KHAZAEI, “The Third Sex: A Conceptual and Physiological Examination of Eunuchs in Qajar court (1796-1886),” JOURNAL OF IRAN HISTORY (JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES), vol. 12, no. 1 , pp. 167–184, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/398505/en

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