Trans historical : gender plurality before the modern /
edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Kłosowska.
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. The benefits of being trans historical / Mapping the borders of sex / Elenx de Cèspedes: indeterminate genders in the Spanish Inquisition / The case of Marin le Marcis / The transgender turn: Eleanor Rykener speaks back / Wojciech of Poznań and the trans archive, Poland 1550-1561 / Recognizing Wilgefortis / Performing and desiring gender variance in the Ottoman Empire / Without magic or miracle: the romance of silence and the prehistory of genderqueerness / Transgender translation, humanism, and periodization: Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great / Visualizing the trans-animal body: the hyena in Medieval bestiaries / Maimed limbs and biosalvation: rehabilitation politics in Piers Plowman / Where are all the trans women in Byzantium? / Performing reparative transgender identities from stage beauty to the king and the clown / Laid open: examining genders in early America / Epilogue: against consensus / Anna Kłosowska, Greta LaFleur, and Masha Raskolnikov -- Leah DeVun -- Igor H. De Souza -- Kathleen Perry Long -- M. W. Bychowski -- Anna Kłosowska -- Robert Mills -- Abdulhamit Arvas -- Masha Raskolnikov -- Zrinka Stahuljak -- Emma Campbell -- Micah Goodrich -- Roland Betancourt -- Alexa Alice Joubin -- Scott Larson -- 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.""--