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The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / Leah DeVun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeVun, Leah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersex people--Europe--History.
- Intersex people.
- Sex--Europe--History.
- Sex.
- Gender nonconformity--Europe--History.
- Gender nonconformity.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeVun, Leah. The shape of sex
- ISBN:
- 0231551363
- 9780231551366
- Publisher Number:
- 99987861032
- EB00792727 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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