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The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance /

"The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of "hermaphrodites" - as individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender binaries were called - from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define &qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeVun, Leah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Stories and Selves
  • 1. The Perfect Sexes of Paradise
  • 2. The Monstrous Races : Mapping the Borders of Sex
  • 3. The Hyena's Unclean Sex : Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities
  • 4. Sex and Order in Natural Philosophy and Law
  • 5. The Correction of Nature: Sex and the Science of Surgery
  • 6. The Jesus Hermaphrodite : Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
  • Conclusion: Tension and Tenses.