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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeVun, Leah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Intersex people > Europe > History.
Sex > Europe > History.
Gender nonconformity > Europe > History.
Intersexués > Europe > Histoire.
Sexualité > Europe > Histoire.
Transgenrisme > Europe > Histoire.
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian
Gender nonconformity
Intersex people
Sex
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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