Trans historical : gender plurality before the modern

Book 2021

"Trans Historical illuminates the plurality of trans and gendered experiences that flourished in medieval and early modern Greece, Turkey, Poland, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, North America, and England; expands our understanding of trans pasts; and documents lives that refused or exceeded categories such as 'man' or 'woman,' before frameworks like 'transgender,' 'binary,' and 'normal.'"-- Provided by publisher.

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Gender nonconformity History 16th century

Gender nonconformity History 17th century

Gender nonconformity History 18th century

Gender nonconformity History To 1500

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ISBN:

9781501759505

Description:

viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Simultaneously published in hardcover: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2021
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction. The benefits of being trans historical / Anna Kłosowska, Greta LaFleur, and Masha Raskolnikov
Mapping the borders of sex / Leah DeVun
Elenx de Cèspedes : indeterminate genders in the Spanish Inquisition / Igor H. De Souza
The case of Marin le Marcis / Kathleen Perry Long
The transgender turn : eleanor Rykener speaks back / M. W. Bychowski
Wojciech of Poznań and the trans archive, Poland 1550-1561 / Anna Kłosowska
Recognizing Wilgefortis / Robert Mills
Performing and desiring gender variance in the Ottoman Empire / Abdulhamit Arvas
Without magic or miracle : the romance of silence and the prehistory of genderqueerness / Masha Raskolnikov
Transgender translation, humanism, and periodization : vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great / Zrinka Stahuljak
Visualizing the trans-animal body : the hyena in Medieval bestiaries / Emma Campbell
Maimed limbs and biosalvation : rehabilitation politics in Piers Plowman / Micah Goodrich
Where are all the trans women in Byzantium? / Roland Betancourt
Performing reparative transgender identities from stage beauty to the king and the clown / Alexa Alice Joubin
Laid open : examining genders in early America / Scott Larson
Epilogue : against consensus / Greta LaFleur

Control Number:

3349589

Other Authors:

Kłosowska, Anna, 1966- editor
LaFleur, Greta, 1981- editor
Raskolnikov, Masha, 1972- editor

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