{"product_id":"trans-historical-gender-plurality-before-the-modern-9781501759505","title":"Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrans Historical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives--literary texts, trial transcripts, documents, and artifacts--that denaturalize \u003ci\u003egender\u003c\/i\u003e as a category. The volume historicizes the many different social lives of sexual differentiation, exploring what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the sedimentation of gender difference into its putatively binary form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume's multidisciplinary group of contributors consider how individuals, communities, and states understood and enacted gender as a social experience distinct from the assignment of sex at birth. Alongside historical questions about the meaning of sexual differentiation, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrans Historical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e also offers a series of diverse meditations on how scholars of the medieval and early modern periods might approach gender nonconformity before the nineteenth-century emergence of the \u003ci\u003enorm\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003enormal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania; Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine; M. W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University; Emma Campbell, Warwick University; Igor H. de Souza, Yale University; Leah DeVun, Rutgers University; Micah James Goodrich, University of Connecticut; Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University; Anna K?osowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills, University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Natural History of Sexuality in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasha Raskolnikov is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, and author of \u003ci\u003eBody Against Soul\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Klosowska is Professor of French at Miami University, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660328210706,"sku":"9781501759505","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e3f0af3-bd24-4477-8acd-cc7470a1d2b1.jpg?v=1733475012","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trans-historical-gender-plurality-before-the-modern-9781501759505","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}