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Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity / edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub

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Author:
Epstein, Julia  Search this
Straub, Kristina 1951-  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1991
Contents:
Introduction : the guarded body / Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub -- "I will make Mary male" : pieties of the body and gender transformation of Christian women in late antiquity / Elizabeth Castelli -- The categorization of gender and sexual irregularity in medieval Arabic vice lists / Everett K. Rowson -- Fetishizing gender : constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- London's Sapphists : from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture / Randolph Trumbach -- The guilty pleasures of female theatrical cross-dressing and the autobiography of Charlotte Clarke / Kristina Straub -- D'Eon returns to France : gender and power in 1777 / Gary Kates -- "Sans les femmes, qu'est-ce qui nous resterait?" : gender and transgression in bohemian Montmartre / Michael Wilson
The chic of Araby : transvestism, transsexualism and the erotics of cultural appropriation / Marjorie Garber -- Transsexualism : reflections on the persistence of gender and the mutability of sex / Judith Shapiro -- The empire strikes back : a posttranssexual manifesto / Sandy Stone -- The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub -- "Lessons" from "nature" : gender ideology and sexual ambiguity in biology / Bonnie B. Spanier -- Misreading sodomy : a critique of the classification of "homosexuals" in federal Equal Protection Law / Janet E. Halley
Topic:
Sexual deviation--History  Search this
Sex role--History  Search this
Call number:
HQ71.B57 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_421022