DeVun The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55136-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeVun, Leah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leah DeVun is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. DeVun is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (Columbia, 2009) and was coeditor of Trans*historicities (2018), an issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.