Book ID: CBB256213398

Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (2021)

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LaFleur, Greta (Author)
Masha Raskolnikov (Author)
Anna Kłosowska (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 402
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Meagan Khoury
Jane Elizabeth Bonsall
Michael Pfeiffer
Dolezal, Luna
Lise Shapiro Sanders
Basil Arnould Price
Concepts
Gender identity
Medicine and gender
Sexuality
Gender
Human body
Medicine
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
Ancient
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
Europe
United States
Greece
England
Germany
France
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