{"product_id":"trans-historical-gender-plurality-before-the-modern-hardback-9781501759086","title":"Trans Historical; Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Hardback) 9781501759086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrans Historical\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender Plurality Before the Modern\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGreta LaFleur (Edited by), Masha Raskolnikov (Edited by), Anna Klosowska (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501759086\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e402 pages, 28 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 28 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection's concluding essays address methodological questions, frameworks, and terminology, offering many possibilities for approaching trans-centered analysis in medieval and early modern scholarship. Overall, the collection is an important contribution to the premodern era, and the diversity of sources, methodologies, and approaches will appeal to a wide variety of students and scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrans Historical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRefuting 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 \u003ci\u003egender\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrans Historical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003enorm\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003enormal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors: 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 KÅosowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills, University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical, by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna M. Klosowska\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. Mapping the Borders of Sex, by Leah DeVun\u003cbr\u003e 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition, by Igor H. de Souza\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis, by Kathleen Perry Long\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor Rykener Speaks Back, by M.W. Bychowski\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wojciech of Pozna and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561, by Anna M. Klosowska\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e6. Recognizing Wilgefortis, by Robert Mills\u003cbr\u003e 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, by Abdulhamit Arvas\u003cbr\u003e 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness, by Masha Raskolnikov\u003cbr\u003e 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great, by Zrinka Stahuljak\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiaries, by Emma Campbell\u003cbr\u003e 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman, by Micah James Goodrich\u003cbr\u003e 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?, by Roland Betancourt\u003cbr\u003e 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown, by Alexa Alice Joubin\u003cbr\u003e 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America, by Scott Larson\u003cbr\u003e 15. Epilogue: Against Consensus, by Greta LaFleur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607805784344,"sku":"9781501759086","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/trans-historical-gender-plurality-before-the-modern-hardback-9781501759086","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}