Thinking sex with the early moderns
By: Valerie Traub
Series: Haney Foundation series; Haney Foundation series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780812247299
Subjects: Sex (Psychology); English literature; History and criticism; Renaissance; Sex in literature; Gender identity; Language and sex; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking sex : knowledge, opacity, history; title: 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; title: 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; title: Part III. The stakes of gender. Shakespeare's sex ; The sign of the lesbian; title: Sex ed; or, Teach me tonight.