Leah DeVun (Rutgers University Assistant Professor)

The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 200â 1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define â the humanâ so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780231195515
• ISBN-10: 0231195516
• Artikelnr.: 56726962

Autorenporträt

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 .

Inhaltsangabe

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