Shape of Sex

Shape of Sex

AngličtinaPevná väzba
DeVun Leah
Columbia University Press
EAN: 9780231195508
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Podrobné informácie

Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America

Winner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society

Winner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion

Honorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)

Longlisted, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies, Lambda Literary Awards

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

The Shape of Sex examines a host of thinkers—theologians, cartographers, natural philosophers, lawyers, poets, surgeons, and alchemists—who used ideas about nonbinary sex as conceptual tools to order their political, cultural, and natural worlds. DeVun reconstructs the cultural landscape navigated by individuals whose sex or gender did not fit the binary alongside debates about animality, sexuality, race, religion, and human nature. The Shape of Sex charts an embrace of nonbinary sex in early Christianity, its brutal erasure at the turn of the thirteenth century, and a new enthusiasm for nonbinary transformations at the dawn of the Renaissance. Along the way, DeVun explores beliefs that Adam and Jesus were nonbinary-sexed; images of “monstrous races” in encyclopedias, maps, and illuminated manuscripts; justifications for violence against purportedly nonbinary outsiders such as Jews and Muslims; and the surgical “correction” of bodies that seemed to flout binary divisions.

In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, The Shape of Sex casts new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female—and human.
EAN 9780231195508
ISBN 0231195508
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Columbia University Press
Dátum vydania 25. mája 2021
Stránky 336
Jazyk English
Rozmery 235 x 156
Krajina United States
Autori DeVun Leah
Ilustrácie 40 b&w illustrations