Trans Historical 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. Refuting 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 gender 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. The 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,
Trans Historical 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
norm and the normal. Contributors: 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
Klosowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills,
University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak,
UCLA.
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