The Sleeping Hermaphrodite

Waking up from a Lethargic Confinement What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is ‘the sleeping Hermaphrodite’ really asleep? Or has she/he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization? CONTENTS My Trans Body is an Empty House by Paul B. Preciado Queering Mythology for Alternative Futures: Athena and Dionysus by Denis Maksimov Touching the Difference by Juan Duque The transformation of Hermaphroditus by Juan Duque Two Types of Representations of Hermaphroditus: The Sleeping Hermaphroditus, Roman type by Juan Duque Hermaphroditos Anasyromenos by Nicolas Lakiotakis