Queer Nonfiction Books Bracket: Round 1B
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Crush by Richard Siken
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun
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Queer Nonfiction Books Bracket: Round 1B
Choose a book:
Crush by Richard Siken
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun
Book summaries below:
Modern scholars of queer, intersex, and transgender studies have produced important scholarship documenting the ways in which "the human" has been deeply inflected by our beliefs about gender and sexuality. As these scholars have shown, gender plays a central role in legitimizing personhood, granting only the full range of human privileges (including those of bodily integrity and self-determination) to individuals who fit into accepted, natural categories, while withholding it from those whose bodies or gendered practices are considered unnatural or unacceptable.
Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe by Leah DeVun
Queer Nonfiction Books Bracket: Round 2
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Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun
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Queer Nonfiction Books Bracket: Preliminary Round
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The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun
Gay Propaganda, edited by Masha Gessen and Joseph Huff-Hannon
Book summaries below:
In [art historian Robert] Mills’s view, "transgender" is a strategic anachronism that illuminates the lives of medieval actors, including gender-switching sodomites and saintly cross-dressing monks, even as Mills acknowledges that modern language is necessarily experimental and provisional when it is applied to the distant past.
Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Much like modern scientists, medieval naturalists assumed their beliefs about sexual difference to be objective facts. But sex is not an unchanging reality.
Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Medieval thinkers, of course, did not make any distinction between sex, gender, and sexuality, all of which were all wrapped up in the single and composite category of "sexus."
Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance