Trans Historical : : Gender Plurality before the Modern / / ed. by Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska, Greta LaFleur.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Arvas, Abdulhamit,; Betancourt, Roland,; Bychowski, M.,; Campbell, Emma,; DeVun, Leah,; Goodrich, Micah,; Joubin, Alexa,; Kłosowska, Anna,; LaFleur, Greta,; Larson, Scott,; Long, Kathleen,; Mills, Robert,; Raskolnikov, Masha,; Souza, Igor,; Speaks, Rykener,; Stahuljak, Zrinka,
• HerausgeberIn: Klosowska, Anna,; LaFleur, Greta,; Raskolnikov, Masha,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.) :; 28 b&w halftones

Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives—literary texts, trial transcripts, documents, and artifacts—that denaturalize gender as a category. The volume historicizes the many different social lives of sexual differentiation, exploring what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the sedimentation of gender difference into its putatively binary form.The volume's multidisciplinary group of contributors consider how individuals, communities, and states understood and enacted gender as a social experience distinct from the assignment of sex at birth. Alongside historical questions about the meaning of sexual differentiation, Trans Historical also offers a series of diverse meditations on how scholars of the medieval and early modern periods might approach gender nonconformity before the nineteenth-century emergence of the norm and the normal. Contributors: Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania; Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine; M. W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University; Emma Campbell, Warwick University; Igor H. de Souza, Yale University; Leah DeVun, Rutgers University; Micah James Goodrich, University of Connecticut; Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University; Anna Kłosowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills, University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical -- Contributors -- Part I. Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine -- 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex -- 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition -- 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis -- 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor -- 5. Wojciech of Poznań and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561 -- Part II. Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives -- 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis -- 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire -- 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness -- 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena’s Deeds of Alexander the Great -- Part III. Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies -- 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiar -- 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers -- 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium? -- 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown -- 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America -- Epilogue: Against Consensus -- Contributors -- Index