Published uses of "androgyne"

[Jaimey]

So I happened to read some Adrienne Rich for a class (211 pages!!!  He assigned 211 pages of reading and a research paper!!!  SADIST!) and I came across a poem she wrote in 1972 (I think) called "The Stranger," where she says "I am the androgyne."

Anyway, it made me happy and I was curious what other published places we've seen the word "androgyne."

[Shana A]

The first therapist I went to for dealing with transgender issues (only a couple of sessions, after which I found someone who specialized in them) loaned me a book which mentioned androgyne. I remember the word literally jumping out at me. I can't find the book, thus I must have been a good person and returned it 

I just tried to find that book online, but no luck, however there are 231 books listed in an Amazon.com search of androgyne.

This quote, which I have previously used as my signature, is from a source a couple of thousand years old. "The androgyne is in some things like men and in some things like women; in some things like both men and women; and in some things like neither men nor women." (Mishnah Tractate Zraim)

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[Jaimey]

Very nice.    I don't know why, but seeing it in print makes me feel good.

[Pica Pica]

I've got a book called, 'The Modern Androgyne Imagination'

amazon synopsis - 'Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened.'

The first  chapter about the concept of androgyne was interested - but I don't like modernist writers all that much and got bored with the book.

[Jaimey]

The first  chapter about the concept of androgyne was interested - but I don't like modernist writers all that much and got bored with the book.

Ahahaha!  I don't care for them much either.