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050	0	4	_aHQ78 _b.S537 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDeVun, Leah, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe shape of sex : _bnonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / _cLeah DeVun.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : _billustrations (some color)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntro -- _tTable of Contents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tIntroduction: Stories and Selves -- _t1. The Perfect Sexes of Paradise -- _t2. The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex -- _t3. The Hyena's Unclean Sex: Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities -- _t4. Sex and Order in Natural Philosophy and Law -- _t5. The Correction of Nature: Sex and the Science of Surgery -- _t6. The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Alchemy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance -- _tConclusion: Tension and Tenses -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tColor Plates
520	0		_a"Devun CIP blurb The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of "hermaphrodites"-as individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender binaries were called-from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define "the human" so often hinged on ideas about hermaphrodites. DeVun examines a host of thinkers-theologians, cartographers, natural philosophers, lawyers, poets, surgeons, and alchemists-who used ideas about hermaphrodites as conceptual tools to order their political, cultural, and natural worlds. She reconstructs the cultural landscape navigated by individuals whose sex or gender did not fit the binary alongside debates about animality, sexuality, race, religion, and human nature. The Shape of Sex charts an embrace of hermaphroditism in early Christianity, its brutal erasure at the turn of the thirteenth century, and a new enthusiasm for hermaphroditic transformations at the dawn of the Renaissance. Along the way, DeVun explores beliefs that Adam and Jesus were hermaphrodites; images of "monstrous races" in encyclopedias, maps, and illuminated manuscripts; justifications for violence against purportedly hermaphroditic outsiders such as Jews and Muslims; and the surgical "correction" of bodies that seemed to flout binary divisions. In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, The Shape of Sex casts new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female-and human"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aIntersex people _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aSex _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aGender nonconformity _zEurope _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell