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Dear LGBTQ-HISTORY Subscribers, We would like to announce a new publication from Cornell University Press, which we hope will be of interest. [Trans Historical]Trans Historical Gender Plurality before the Modern Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov & Anna Klosowska https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501759505/trans-historical/ Receive a 20% discount online*: CSLF2021 *Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2022. Discount only applies to the CAP website. 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, Roland Betancourt, M. W. Bychowski, Emma Campbell, Igor H. de Souza, Leah DeVun, Micah James Goodrich, Alexa Alice Joubin, Anna Kłosowska, Greta LaFleur, Scott Larson, Kathleen Perry Long, Robert Mills, Masha Raskolnikov, Zrinka Stahuljak Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. Masha Raskolnikov is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, and author of Body Against Soul. Anna Kłosowska is Professor of French at Miami University, and coeditor of Disturbing Times. With all best wishes, Combined Academic Publishers Cornell University Press | October 2021 | 402pp | 9781501759505 | PB | £24.99* *Price subject to change. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LGBTQ-HISTORY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LGBTQ-HISTORY&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/LGBTQ-HISTORY, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/