Thinking sex with the early moderns / Valerie Traub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traub, Valerie, 1958- author.

Series:

Haney Foundation series.

Haney Foundation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Sex (Psychology)--History--16th century.

Sex (Psychology).

Sex (Psychology)--History--17th century.

Gender identity--England--History--16th century.

Gender identity.

Gender identity--England--History--17th century.

Language and sex--History.

Language and sex.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge. Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns leverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History

Part I. Making the History of Sexuality

Chapter 2. Friendship's Loss: Alan Bray's Making of History

Chapter 3. The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies

Chapter 4. The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography

Part II. Scenes of Instruction; or, Early Modern Sex Acts

Chapter 5. The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge

Chapter 6. Sex in the Interdisciplines

Chapter 7. Talking Sex

Part III. The Stakes of Gender

Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Sex

Chapter 9. The Sign of the Lesbian

Chapter 10. Sex Ed; or, Teach Me Tonight

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812291582

0812291581

OCLC:

918967464