Thinking sex with the early moderns / Valerie Traub.

  • Traub, Valerie, 1958-
Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Physical description

xiii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Thinking sex: knowledge, opacity, history -- Part I. Making the history of sexuality. Friendship's loss: Alan Bray's making of history -- The new unhistoricism in queer studies -- The present future of lesbian historiography -- Part II. Scenes of instruction; or, early modern sex acts. The joys of Martha Joyless: queer pedagogy and the (early modern) production of sexual knowledge -- Sex in the interdisciplines -- Talking sex -- Part III. The stakes of gender. Shakespeare's sex -- The sign of the lesbian -- Sex ed; or, teach me tonight.

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    History of Medicine
    TPJ.AA5-6
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ISBN

  • 9780812247299
  • 0812247299