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Author Traub, Valerie, 1958- author.

Title Thinking sex with the early moderns / Valerie Traub
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages) : illustrations
Series Haney Foundation series
Haney Foundation series.
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
Summary What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Renaissance -- England
Language and sex -- History
Gender identity -- England -- History -- 17th century
Gender identity -- England -- History -- 16th century
Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 17th century
Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 16th century
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Sex in literature.
17.86 literary genres, theory of genre.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
English literature -- Early modern
Gender identity
Language and sex
Renaissance
Sex in literature
Sex (Psychology)
Literatur
Englisch
Erotik Motiv
Geschlechterrolle Motiv
Litteraturvetenskap -- Storbritannien -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet.
Sexualitet.
Könsidentitet.
Lesbianism.
Queerteori.
Literary studies -- Great Britain -- 16th century -- 17th century.
Sexuality.
Gender identity.
Lesbianism.
Queer theory.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia.
Sexualitet i litteraturen.
Könsidentitet -- historia.
Språk och kön -- historia.
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812291582
0812291581