Trans Historical : : Gender Plurality before the Modern /

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

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 w...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 p.) :; 28 b&w halftones
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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

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