The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / Leah DeVun.
DeVun, Leah, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2021
HQ78.2.E85 D49 2021
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Title The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / Leah DeVun.
Author DeVun, Leah, author.
ISBN 0231551363 (electronic book)
9780231551366 (electronic book)
9780231195508
9780231195515
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource ( xiv, 315 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Call Number HQ78.2.E85 D49 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/85094
Distributor No. EB00792727 Recorded Books
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Intro
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Stories and Selves
1. The Perfect Sexes of Paradise
2. The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex
3. The Hyena's Unclean Sex: Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities
4. Sex and Order in Natural Philosophy and Law
5. The Correction of Nature: Sex and the Science of Surgery
6. The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Conclusion: Tension and Tenses
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Color Plates

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