The Shape of Sex : : Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / / Leah DeVun.
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 o...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 40 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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