Download or read book The Androgyne in Early Modern France written by Marian Rothstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium , the androygyne during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full potential of humans made in the image of God. This book documents and comments on the range of references to the androgyne in the writings of poets, philosophers, courtiers, and women in positions of political power.