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Trans historical : gender plurality before the modern / edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Kłosowska.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1501759523
  • 9781501759512
  • 1501759515
  • 9781501759529
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trans historicalDDC classification:
  • 306.76/8 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ77.9 .T73 2021
Online resources:
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.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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